What is recorded here
The National Heritage List for England records Lexden Tumulus Iron Age barrow and associated cemetery area: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum 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.
Iron Age barrow and cemetery, part of the oppidum of Camulodunum, dating to the 1st century BCE–1st century CE. It is significant as a key burial and settlement site of the Catuvellauni tribe, reflecting social structure and funerary practices in pre-Roman southeastern Britain.
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