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Ashen Hill Barrows

a Pleiades place resource

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The Ashen Hill Barrow Cemetery is located in Somerset, England. These barrows are the most northerly of the sites in this area. The cemetery consists of six bowl barrows and two bell barrows that are aligned on an east-to-west axis.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/565942846

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
51.2659494, -2.6631819

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ashen Hill Barrows (2500 BC - 800 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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None

Ashen Hill Barrows makes connections with:

Ashen Hill Barrows located at Priddy Nine Barrows (unspecified date range)

Ashen Hill Barrows receives connections from:

None

Place type:
catacomb, cemetery, necropolis

References:

See Further:

Wikipedia (English) Priddy Nine Barrows and Ashen Hill Barrow Cemeteries

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Ashen Hill Barrows: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/565942846> [accessed: 16 February 2026]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/565942846 |title=Places: 565942846 (Ashen Hill Barrows) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=February 16, 2026 12:19 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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