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Round barrow on the summit of Cotley Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire, England. The barrow occupies a prominent position at the top of Cotley Hill, which would have made it a visually significant monument in the prehistoric landscape. Like other round barrows of the Bronze Age, it represents a form of elite or communal burial practice typical of the second millennium BC. The monument survives as an earthwork and remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric funerary traditions in the Wiltshire region.
Round barrow on the summit of Cotley Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009831. View the official record →
Round barrow on the summit of Cotley Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009831.
Round barrow on the summit of Cotley 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 1009831.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork enclosure in Penning Wood, 290m NE of Penning (7.3 km), Bowl barrow in High Park on south facing slope of Fonthill Down (8.1 km), Bowl barrow 540m north of Woodbine Barn (8.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow on the summit of Cotley 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 on the summit of Cotley Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.