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The Round Hills earthwork is a Neolithic or early Bronze Age monument located in Lincolnshire. The site consists of a series of burial mounds or barrows arranged in a distinctive grouping that reflects prehistoric funerary practices and settlement patterns in the region. The earthwork survives as low relief features in the landscape, preserving evidence of early Bronze Age activity and ceremonial land use. The monument is of archaeological significance as a rare survival of grouped barrow construction, contributing to understanding of prehistoric burial customs and territorial organisation in the East Midlands.
The Round Hills earthwork is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005039. View the official record →
The Round Hills earthwork is a Neolithic or early Bronze Age monument located in Lincolnshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005039.
The Round Hills earthwork is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1005039.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Norman manor house (12th century) (2.1 km), Ring Dam medieval fishpond (3 km), Bassingthorpe Manor moated site (3.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The Round Hills earthwork's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
The Round Hills earthwork stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.