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Round barrow cemetery 250m east of Straight Walk Plantation is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire. The site comprises a group of round barrows, earthen mounds constructed as burial places during the Bronze Age period, roughly 2200 to 700 BC. Such barrow cemeteries represent significant concentrations of funerary activity and reflect the social organisation and burial practices of Bronze Age communities in the Wessex region. The monument's survival as an upstanding earthwork preserves important archaeological evidence of prehistoric burial customs and settlement patterns in the Wiltshire landscape.
Round barrow cemetery 250m east of Straight Walk Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014620. View the official record →
Round barrow cemetery 250m east of Straight Walk Plantation is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014620.
Round barrow cemetery 250m east of Straight Walk Plantation 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 1014620.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Iron Age hillfort in Ashley's Copse See also WILTSHIRE 912 (4.9 km), Iron Age fort in Ashley's Copse See also HAMPSHIRE 540 (4.9 km), Bowl barrow 50m west of the Battery Hill triangulation point (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow cemetery 250m east of Straight Walk Plantation's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Round barrow cemetery 250m east of Straight Walk Plantation stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.