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Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down

England
List entry 1005468
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1005468
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.23 hectares
Grid reference
SX1886688032, SX1867988100, SX1881388069, SX1917987772, SX1918887616
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down is a Bronze Age burial site located in Cornwall, England. The cemetery comprises multiple round barrows, earthen mounds raised over individual or collective burials, which are characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice in south-western Britain, typically dating from around 2200 to 700 BC. The site demonstrates the importance of this locality as a focus for ritual burial activity during the Bronze Age period. Such barrow cemeteries represent significant archaeological evidence for understanding prehistoric settlement patterns, social organisation, and burial customs in Cornwall.

Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005468. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down?

Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down is a Bronze Age burial site located in Cornwall, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005468.

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

Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey 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 1005468.

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

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric and medieval linear boundary with associated peat stack platform 475m SSW of Eastmoorgate (9.6 km), Prehistoric ritual enclosure 1.7km NW of Tresellern Farm (10.4 km), Prehistoric stone alignment 1km SSE of Eastmoorgate (10.4 km).

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Overview
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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

Prehistoric and medieval linear boundary with associated peat stack platform 475m SSW of Eastmoorgate
9.6 km
Prehistoric ritual enclosure 1.7km NW of Tresellern Farm
10.4 km
Prehistoric stone alignment 1km SSE of Eastmoorgate
10.4 km
Prehistoric embanked platform cairn and medieval transhumance hut 1.49km NW of Tresellern Farm
10.6 km
Nine Stones stone circle 1.03km NNW of Bowhayland Farm
10.6 km
Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor
10.6 km
Medieval tenement boundary between Louden Hill and King Arthur's Downs
10.8 km
Round cairn 800m WSW of Tolcarne Farm
10.9 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down

Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down stands on Teign Valley Group, bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down

Battle of Stratton 1643Battle (1643) · ~12.2 milesBattle of Braddock Down (1643)Battle (1643) · ~15.4 milesBattle of Lostwithiel 21 August 1644Battle (1644) · ~17.3 milesBattle of Lostwithiel 31 August - 1 September 1644Battle (1644) · ~20.6 miles
Domesday entry for Treglasta, Cornwall →
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