What is recorded here
The National Heritage List for England records Square barrow on Shortgate Hill, 380m south west of Coomb Slack Farm 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.
Square barrow on Shortgate Hill, 380m south west of Coomb Slack Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument. Its significance lies in representing a rare surviving example of a square barrow, a distinctive type of funerary structure associated with early ceremonial and burial practices in the British Isles.
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