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Round barrows in and near Wright's Piece is a Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset, England. The site comprises a group of round barrows typical of burial practices during the Bronze Age, when such earthworks served as communal or individual graves for the dead and represented significant investment in ceremonial landscape marking. The barrows themselves consist of earthen mounds that would originally have been more prominent in the landscape than their current degraded state suggests. Such monuments are characteristic of the second and early first millennia before Christ and provide important evidence for understanding prehistoric settlement patterns, social organisation, and ritual practices in the West Country region.
Round barrows in and near Wright's Piece is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006218. View the official record →
Round barrows in and near Wright's Piece is a Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006218.
Round barrows in and near Wright's Piece 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 1006218.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 490m north west of Pen Hill Farm (6.5 km), Bracelet Cave (6.5 km), Badger Hole, Wookey (6.7 km).
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