Ten bowl barrows, five disc barrows, a bell barrow, a pond barrow and a saucer barrow forming the Wilsford round barrow cemetery

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History & significance

Wilsford round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial ground located in Wiltshire, England, comprising a remarkable concentration of ten bowl barrows, five disc barrows, one bell barrow, one pond barrow and one saucer barrow. These earthwork monuments date to the second millennium BC and represent different architectural traditions within Bronze Age burial practice, with their varied forms reflecting evolving funerary customs across several centuries. The cemetery demonstrates the ritual significance of the Wiltshire chalk downland as a burial landscape during the Bronze Age, comparable to other major barrow concentrations in the region. The monuments survive as earthwork features and collectively provide important evidence for understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices and the social organisation of prehistoric Wessex communities.

Ten bowl barrows, five disc barrows, a bell barrow, a pond barrow and a saucer barrow forming the Wilsford round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010874. View the official record →

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