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Two of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. The barrows form part of a larger ceremonial landscape characteristic of prehistoric burial practices in the region, dating to the Bronze Age period. These earthworks represent significant evidence of early second-millennium burial tradition and ritual activity in the Wiltshire chalk downs. The monuments retain their distinctive mounded form, reflecting the original construction methods employed by Bronze Age communities to mark high-status burial sites.
Two of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009650. View the official record →
Two of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009650.
Two of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill 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 1009650.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 250m south east of Tower Hill (9.5 km), Ogbury camp (9.7 km), Saucer barrow 400m north east of the sports ground: one of a group of round barrows north west of Idmiston Down (9.8 km).
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Two of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.