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Two bowl barrows and a ring ditch 250m north east of Thorn Down: part of the group known as Seven Barrows

Scheduled monument

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The National Heritage List for England records Two bowl barrows and a ring ditch 250m north east of Thorn Down: part of the group known as Seven Barrows 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.
Bowl barrows and a ring ditch, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BCE), are a type of funerary and ritual monument associated with burial and territorial markers. The Seven Barrows group represents a significant prehistoric landscape feature, reflecting early communal burial practices and social organisation in the region.

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