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Five Knolls round barrow cemetery: three bell barrows, two bowl barrows and two pond barrows on Dunstable Down

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Five Knolls round barrow cemetery: three bell barrows, two bowl barrows and two pond barrows on Dunstable Down
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The National Heritage List for England records Five Knolls round barrow cemetery: three bell barrows, two bowl barrows and two pond barrows on Dunstable Down as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
A Neolithic round barrow cemetery, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE, containing three bell barrows, two bowl barrows, and two pond barrows. It represents an important early funerary landscape in southern England, reflecting burial practices and social organisation of the period.

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