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A pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200 metres west-south-west of Beckhampton Buildings is a scheduled monument forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down in Wiltshire. These round burial mounds, characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice, date to the second millennium BC and represent part of the wider ritual landscape of the Wessex downlands. The barrows form an integral element of the larger cemetery distribution across North Down, which demonstrates the significance of this elevated terrain for prehistoric burial activity. Their preservation as archaeological monuments reflects the importance of Bronze Age mortuary practices in understanding the settlement patterns and social organisation of contemporary communities in the region.
Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013752. View the official record →
A pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200 metres west-south-west of Beckhampton Buildings is a scheduled monument forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013752.
Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1013752.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rybury camp (4.2 km), All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site (4.6 km), Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill (5.1 km).
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Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.