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Round barrow cemetery on Shapwick Hill is a Bronze Age burial ground situated in Devon, England. The site comprises multiple round barrows, characteristic funerary monuments of the Bronze Age period. These earthwork mounds represent significant evidence of ritual burial practices and social organisation during the second millennium BC. The cemetery's designation reflects its importance as a grouped barrow complex, which provides archaeological insight into prehistoric settlement patterns and mortuary customs in the region.
Round barrow cemetery on Shapwick Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018852. View the official record →
Round barrow cemetery on Shapwick Hill is a Bronze Age burial ground situated in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018852.
Round barrow cemetery on Shapwick Hill 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 1018852.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman villa 300yds (270m) SSW of Holcombe Farm (1.2 km), Musbury Castle (2.4 km), Trinity Beacon (2.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow cemetery on Shapwick Hill'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 on Shapwick Hill stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.