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 a group of eight barrows positioned in close proximity to one another, a characteristic arrangement of Bronze Age funerary sites dating to the second millennium BCE. Six of these earthworks survive as visible surface features, preserving evidence of ritual burial practices and settlement patterns during the Bronze Age period. The barrows represent a significant clustering of monumental burials typical of the organised ceremonial landscapes that developed in prehistoric Wiltshire, an area particularly rich in such archaeological remains.

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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