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Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down

England
List entry 1017642
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1017642
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
3.17 hectares
Grid reference
SY 17549 94592, SY 17420 94437, SY 17157 94464, SY 17006 94420, SY 17025 93722, SY 17106 93680, SY 17311 94343, SY 17452 93500
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down is a Bronze Age burial site located in Devon, England. The cemetery comprises multiple round barrows distributed across the downland landscape, representing a significant concentration of funerary monuments from the Bronze Age period. These burial mounds reflect the ritual practices and social organisation of Bronze Age communities in the southwest of England. The site is designated as a heritage monument recognising its archaeological importance for understanding prehistoric settlement and burial customs in the region.

Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017642. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down?

Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down is a Bronze Age burial site located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017642.

Who is responsible for protecting Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down?

Round barrow cemetery on Broad 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 1017642.

What other scheduled monuments are near Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows to the north west of Roncombe Gate Farm, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (1 km), Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (1.3 km), Blackbury Castle hillfort (2.5 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Two bowl barrows to the north west of Roncombe Gate Farm, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill
1 km
Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill
1.3 km
Blackbury Castle hillfort
2.5 km
Cross ridge dyke extending north and south of The Three Horse Shoes Inn
3.6 km
Bowl barrow in Lee's Plantation, East Hill, 560m east of Higher Rill Farm
5.1 km
Sidbury Castle
5.7 km
Bowl barrow at Bovey Fir Cross, 500m south of Bovey House
5.8 km
Sidford packhorse bridge, Church Street
6 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down

Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.

The wider landscape

Around Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down

ExeterRoman town · ~15.9 miles
Domesday entry for Farway, Devon →
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