Round barrows and ring ditches 530m south east of Barlings Abbey: part of Barlings-Stainfield barrow cemetery

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History & significance

Round barrows and ring ditches 530m south east of Barlings Abbey is a Scheduled Monument forming part of the Barlings-Stainfield barrow cemetery in Lincolnshire. The site comprises Bronze Age burial monuments, including ring ditches and associated earthworks that represent a significant prehistoric funerary landscape. The barrows are positioned in the wider archaeological context of Barlings Abbey, a medieval Premonstratensian house founded in the twelfth century, though the prehistoric monuments substantially predate the abbey's establishment. The survival of these earthworks, despite medieval and post-medieval land use in the area, provides important evidence for Bronze Age settlement and burial practices in the Lincolnshire landscape.

Round barrows and ring ditches 530m south east of Barlings Abbey: part of Barlings-Stainfield barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009989. View the official record →

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