What is recorded here

Five hectares of chalk hold Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows where people died before Maiden Castle rose. The dead marked the place first; the fortress came later to keep it. Continuity, not invention, belongs here.

The National Heritage List for England records Round barrow cemetery immediately south east of Maiden Castle 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.

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