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Linear barrow and cairn cemetery on Cosgate Hill, circa 240m north-west of County Gate Visitor Centre

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Linear barrow and cairn cemetery on Cosgate Hill, circa 240m north-west of County Gate Visitor Centre
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The National Heritage List for England records Linear barrow and cairn cemetery on Cosgate Hill, circa 240m north-west of County Gate Visitor Centre 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.
Linear barrow and cairn cemetery; Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. This site represents a rare and important example of a linear arrangement of funerary monuments, reflecting early communal burial practices and landscape organisation in prehistoric Britain.

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