Overview
Holton Round Barrow is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
Who made it and when
The saved record identifies Holton Round Barrow as Ancient burial place. It does not safely name its makers or a precise construction date. The saved detailed account records: Holton Round Barrow is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
How it was made and used
Its classification points to burial or commemoration. The saved wording does not establish the full building method, ceremonies or length of use, so those details remain open.
What was found
No safe list of excavated objects, bones, carvings or dates is supplied by the short saved record. Finds are not invented from the place type or local name.
What remains
The public record still maps Holton Round Barrow as Ancient burial place. The point may mark standing remains, earthworks, a buried site or the centre of a wider area, and this first account keeps that difference visible.
Why it mattered
The place preserves physical evidence or local memory connected with ancient burial place. Its source and exact position give later research a firm starting point without turning uncertain tradition into fact.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Wheatley Campus Groundsattractionunder 0.1 miles
- Moated site 580m south west of Church Farmmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Holton Parkattraction0.2 miles
- Moated site of Holton House and its associated ice housemonument0.2 miles
- Mapped graveyard — South Oxfordshirememorial0.3 miles
- Church of St Bartholomewbuilding0.3 miles
- Garden Copseforest0.3 miles
- Park Sports Centreattraction0.3 miles
- Church of St Marybuilding0.4 miles
- Cross & Obeliskmonument0.4 miles
- Cromwell Housebuilding0.4 miles
- Wall and Outbuildings Along Crown Road in Front of Mulberry Courtbuilding0.4 miles
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