Six of the eight round barrows making up a nucleated round barrow cemetery 100m south of Fargo Road

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Six of the eight round barrows making up a nucleated round barrow cemetery 100m south of Fargo Road is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, England. The cemetery comprises eight closely grouped round barrows, of which six survive as visible earthworks, representing a concentrated zone of funerary activity typical of the second millennium BC. The barrows exhibit the characteristic domed or bowl-shaped profiles of Bronze Age burial mounds, though their condition and preservation vary across the group. Such nucleated barrow cemeteries reflect patterns of family or community burial practice during the Bronze Age, providing evidence of settlement organisation and social structure in prehistoric Wiltshire.

Six of the eight round barrows making up a nucleated round barrow cemetery 100m south of Fargo Road is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009062. View the official record →

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