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Two bowl barrows 370m and 505m south of New England is a component of the Haddenham round barrow cemetery, a Bronze Age burial landscape in Cambridgeshire. These earthen mounds represent typical funerary monuments of the Early to Middle Bronze Age period, constructed as simple hemispherical tumuli to contain cremated or inhumed remains. The barrows occupy part of a substantial cemetery group that demonstrates the ritualistic and territorial importance of the Haddenham locality during the second millennium before Christ. Their survival as archaeological features contributes significantly to understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement hierarchies in the Cambridgeshire fenlands.
Two bowl barrows 370m and 505m south of New England, part of the Haddenham round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019985. View the official record →
Two bowl barrows 370m and 505m south of New England is a component of the Haddenham round barrow cemetery, a Bronze Age burial landscape in Cambridgeshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019985.
Two bowl barrows 370m and 505m south of New England, part of the Haddenham round barrow cemetery 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 1019985.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Three bowl barrows 450m and 570m east of New England, part of the Haddenham round barrow cemetery (0.6 km), Bowl barrow 450m east of Shelford Farm (0.6 km), The Bulwark: a Civil War fieldwork and World War II gun emplacement, 150m north of Earith Bridge (1.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Two bowl barrows 370m and 505m south of New England, part of the Haddenham round barrow cemetery'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.
Two bowl barrows 370m and 505m south of New England, part of the Haddenham round barrow cemetery stands on West Walton Formation, Ampthill Clay Formation And Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Kimmeridgian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.