What is recorded here
The National Heritage List for England records Round cairn cemetery on Holystone Common 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.
Round cairn cemetery on Holystone Common is a Neolithic burial monument, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE. Its significance lies in representing early communal burial practices and the landscape's long-standing ceremonial use in prehistoric England.
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