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Round barrow cemetery on Venn Ottery Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, comprising multiple barrows situated approximately 660 metres south-east of Happy Valley. The cemetery represents a significant funerary landscape from the Bronze Age period, when such barrow clusters served as focal points for community burial practices across the upland regions of south-west England. The monument is designated as a heritage asset of national importance, reflecting its archaeological value as evidence of prehistoric settlement patterns and burial ritual in Devon. The site exemplifies the distribution of Bronze Age barrow cemeteries characteristic of Devon's moorland and upland zones during the second millennium before Christ.
Round barrow cemetery on Venn Ottery Hill, 660m south east of Happy Valley is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017476. View the official record →
Round barrow cemetery on Venn Ottery Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, comprising multiple barrows situated approximately 660 metres south-east of Happy Valley. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017476.
Round barrow cemetery on Venn Ottery Hill, 660m south east of Happy Valley 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 1017476.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Colaton Raleigh Common, 850m north west of Stowford House (4.2 km), Two bowl barrows on Colaton Raleigh Common, 500m north and 780m north east of Woodbury Castle (4.4 km), Woodbury Castle (5.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow cemetery on Venn Ottery Hill, 660m south east of Happy Valley's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Round barrow cemetery on Venn Ottery Hill, 660m south east of Happy Valley stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.