A cluster of Bronze age burial mounds / barrows on Harpley Common. Some are around 3m high. Pottery, bone and charcoal fragments were discovered when Bell Barrow was excavated.
An important expanse of chalk grassland, Ringstead Downs is a nature reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). It has never been ploughed and boasts diverse wildlife, for example, around 20 butterfly species.
There are several Bronze age burial mounds (barrows) in this immediate area. Eye-catching against the otherwise flat terrain, some are 10 feet (3 m) high. Pottery and bone fragments were …
There are gorgeous views of Brancaster up here on Barrow Common. Its height giving an ideal place for a radar station to be erected in the Second World War. Look …
There are gorgeous views of Brancaster up here on Barrow Common. Its height giving an ideal place for a radar station to be erected in the Second World War. Look …