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Name:Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm, south of Sheepy
HER Ref:MLE3183
Parish:Sheepy, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire
Grid Reference:SK 329 002
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Monument Types

  • BARROW CEMETERY (Bronze Age - 2500 BC? to 801 BC?)

Summary

Cropmarks of many ring ditches (12 or more recorded on aerial photographs) on low lying land representing a linear, valley bottom Bronze Age barrow cemetery. Various ditches/sections of pit alignments were also recorded.

Additional Information

Ring ditches associated with the cemetery are: MLE3193, MLE8536, MLE8537, MLE8538, MLE8539, MLE8540, MLE8541, MLE8575, MLE8576, MLE8577, MLE8578, MLE8579, MLE8580.


<1> Pickering, J & Hartley, R F, 1985, Past Worlds in a Landscape - Archaeological Cropmarks in Leicestershire, p26-7 (Bibliographic reference). SLE37.

At least five ring ditches, probably the remains of Bronze Age barrows, on low lying land. (RFH 13/10/86)

Sources

<1>Bibliographic reference: Pickering, J & Hartley, R F. 1985. Past Worlds in a Landscape - Archaeological Cropmarks in Leicestershire. p26-7.

Associated Finds

    None recorded

Designations

  • SHINE: Barrow cemetery north of Ratcliffe Culey

Associated Images

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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (unknown date)
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1977)
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1977)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1977)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1977)
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1976)
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1978)
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1978)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1977)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1977)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1977)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (c.1977)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1977)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (unknown date)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1977)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1977)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1977)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1977)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1978)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1977)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1978)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1978)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (unknown date)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1977)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1977)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1978)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1978)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (unknown date)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (unknown date)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1980)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© LCC
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1977)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1990)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1978)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (c.1978)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (unknown date)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (unknown date)
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1990)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1990)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1990)
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1990)
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1990)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1990)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1990)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1990)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1990)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age barrow cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1990)
© Leicestershire County Council
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1983)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1983)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1983)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1983)
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1977)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1977)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1976)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
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Bronze Age Barrow cemetery south-east of Elms Farm (1979)
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Bronze Age cemetery SE of Elms Farm (1976)
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