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Round barrow north of Gallipoli Road, Sling Camp is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. The barrow survives as an earthen mound characteristic of prehistoric burial practice in southern England, representing the ritual and social structures of communities during the third and second millennia before the Common Era. The monument's location within the wider landscape of Wiltshire's barrow groups indicates its significance within the ceremonial geography of the region. The site is protected as a scheduled monument and remains an important archaeological resource for understanding prehistoric mortuary practices and settlement patterns in the county.
Round barrow north of Gallipoli Road, Sling Camp is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017929. View the official record →
Round barrow north of Gallipoli Road, Sling Camp is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017929.
Round barrow north of Gallipoli Road, Sling Camp 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 1017929.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 530m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down (9.2 km), A pond barrow and a bowl barrow 200m south east of St Mary's Church forming outliers to a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Gunner (9.2 km), Bowl barrow 535m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow north of Gallipoli Road, Sling Camp'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 north of Gallipoli Road, Sling Camp stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.