Six bowl barrows forming the majority of a round barrow cemetery in Larkhill Camp south of The Packway

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Six bowl barrows forming the majority of a round barrow cemetery in Larkhill Camp south of The Packway is a Bronze Age funerary monument complex located in Wiltshire. The site comprises a cemetery of round barrows of which six bowl barrows represent the principal surviving structures, indicating settlement or burial activity during the second millennium before the common era. These earthworks retain their characteristic dome-like forms and are situated within the topographical context of Larkhill Camp, a landscape rich in prehistoric monuments typical of the Wessex chalklands. The barrows constitute an important element of the broader pattern of Bronze Age mortuary practice evident across the Salisbury Plain region.

Six bowl barrows forming the majority of a round barrow cemetery in Larkhill Camp south of The Packway is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009068. View the official record →

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