Round barrow cemetery comprising six bowl barrows north-west of King's Hat Inclosure

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History & significance

Round barrow cemetery comprising six bowl barrows north-west of King's Hat Inclosure is a Bronze Age funerary monument complex located in Hampshire, England. The site consists of six bowl barrows, the characteristic mounded burial structures typical of Bronze Age mortuary practice in southern Britain, distributed across the landscape as a cemetery group. Bowl barrows of this form and arrangement date to the Bronze Age, representing a period when inhumation and cremation burial practices were conducted within earthen mounds erected over the deceased. The clustering of multiple barrows in a single location reflects the established practice of maintaining formal burial grounds that served communities across successive generations.

Round barrow cemetery comprising six bowl barrows north-west of King's Hat Inclosure is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009917. View the official record →

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