Six bowl barrows in Knight's Wood, 500m south-east of White House Farm: part of Seven Hills barrow cemetery

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History & significance

Six bowl barrows in Knight's Wood, 500 metres south-east of White House Farm, is a scheduled ancient monument forming part of the Seven Hills barrow cemetery in Suffolk. The site comprises six Bronze Age burial mounds arranged within the broader cemetery complex, typical of the funerary practices and settlement patterns of the Bronze Age in East Anglia. Bowl barrows of this type are characterised by their distinctive circular mound form raised over cremated or inhumed remains, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status and beliefs of the interred. The monument's location within the Seven Hills cemetery, one of Suffolk's significant Bronze Age burial grounds, indicates the site's importance as a focal point for ritual and mortuary practice during the second and early first millennia BC.

Six bowl barrows in Knight's Wood, 500m south-east of White House Farm: part of Seven Hills barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011540. View the official record →

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