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Two bowl barrows 320m NNW of Waypost Farm are Bronze Age burial mounds forming part of a larger barrow cemetery located south of Ramsey Forty Foot in Huntingdonshire. These earthworks represent the funerary practices of prehistoric communities, likely dating to the second millennium BC when such ceremonial monuments were routinely constructed across the English landscape. The barrows are typical of the bowl barrow type, characterised by their rounded mound form raised above the surrounding ground level. This cemetery complex demonstrates the clustering of burial monuments common to Bronze Age settlement patterns in the East Anglian fenland margins.
Two bowl barrows 320m NNW of Waypost Farm: part of a barrow cemetery south of Ramsey Forty Foot is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009995. View the official record →
Two bowl barrows 320m NNW of Waypost Farm are Bronze Age burial mounds forming part of a larger barrow cemetery located south of Ramsey Forty Foot in Huntingdonshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009995.
Two bowl barrows 320m NNW of Waypost Farm: part of a barrow cemetery south of Ramsey Forty Foot 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 1009995.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Five bowl barrows 100m north of Waypost Farm: part of a barrow cemetery south of Ramsey Forty Foot (0.2 km), Worlick moated site and fishponds (1.5 km), Ramsey Abbey (remains of) (2.5 km).
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Two bowl barrows 320m NNW of Waypost Farm: part of a barrow cemetery south of Ramsey Forty Foot stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.