#bartlow hills

[missleton]

Bartlow hills, one of the secrets of Cambridgeshire. Four large mounds she two small ones, build as burial mounds in the Romano-British era of around 2000 years ago. One of the mounds is the second-highest artificial mound in England, the highest being the much better known Silbury hill in Wiltshire. But like Egypt's pyramids, to which Silbury is sometimes compared, here there is a group.

[ianwatts]

Bartlow Hills, Cambridgeshire.

[archaicwonder]

Bartlow HIlls, Cambridgeshire, England

Bartlow Hills is a 1st-2nd century AD Roman tumuli cemetery in Bartlow (Cambridgeshire, UK). Three of seven original barrows remain. The tallest, at 15 metres high, is the largest barrow north of the Alps.

Excavations were undertaken in the 19th century discovering remains of large wooden chests, decorated vessels in bronze, glass and pottery and an iron folding chair. A small Roman villa, occupied until the late 4th century, was situated north of the mounds.

[oakapples]

And here are some photos from the Bartlow Hills, not far from Cambridge. These are the largest burial mounds, or barrows, this side of the Alps; seven were raised during the Romano-British era, and three survive.