Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.

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History & significance

The Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of the extensive round barrow cemetery associated with the Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Windmill Hill near Avebury in Wiltshire. These two barrows represent typical funerary structures of the Bronze Age period, when such earthen mounds were constructed to mark high-status burials across southern England. The barrow cemetery at Windmill Hill demonstrates the long-term ceremonial significance of the location, with Bronze Age communities choosing to establish their burial grounds in proximity to the earlier Neolithic monument, indicating continuity of ritual practice across more than a thousand years. The monuments remain visible as earthen mounds and form an important element of the archaeological landscape documenting settlement, burial practice, and social organisation in prehistoric Wiltshire.

Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery. is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008447. View the official record →

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