Bartlow Hills

A picture of Bartlow Hills

Bartlow Hills is a Roman tumuli cemetery in Essex, adjacent to Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. Three of originally seven barrows remain. The tallest is 50 feet high, and the largest barrow north of the Alps.

Excavations were undertaken in the 19th century (chiefly in 1832–40), discovering remains of large wooden chests, decorated vessels in bronze, glass and pottery and an iron folding chair (most of which were lost in a later fire at Easton Lodge in 1847). A small Roman villa, occupied until the late 4th century, was situated north of the mounds and was excavated in 1852. The site saw no further work until a geophysical survey in 2006 and further excavations in 2007. During this work, it was not possible to locate the Roman villa.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Bartlow Hills)

• Location map: 52°4’47"N, 0°18’49"E
• 2007 excavations at Bartlow Hills by the University of Reading
• Bartlow Hills page at sheshen-eceni.co.uk
• Bartlow Hills on megalithic.co.uk
• A picture showing Bartlow Hills during the construction of the railway in about 1864 is available on this page.
• A set of aerial photographs of Bartlow Hills by Bill Blake is available on Flickr.
• Ashdon on british-history.ac.uk with information on Barlow Hills

Bibliography

• Eckardt, H., Brewer, P., Hay, S. and Poppy, S. (2009) Roman barrows and their landscape context: a GIS case study at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. Britannia, 40 (1). pp. 65–98. ISSN 1753-5352 [1]
• Eckardt, H., Clarke, A. S., Hay, S., Macaulay, S., Ryan, P., Thornley, D. M. and Timby, J. (2009) The Bartlow Hills in context: report on recent excavations. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, XCVIII. pp. 47–64. [2]
• Astin, T., Eckardt, H. and Hay, S. (2007) Resistivity imaging survey of the Roman barrows at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, UK. Archaeological Prospection, 14 (1). pp. 24–37. ISSN 1075-2196 [3]
• The 19th century excavations were published in the journal Archaeologia in the years 1834, 1836, 1840, and 1842.

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