c. 1900 BC
Martlesham Heath

06Martlesham

Bronze Age burial mounds known as round barrows, like this one at Martlesham, are the earliest, visible, humanly-made features in the Suffolk landscape.

arrow 6l  suffolkmap 6  arrow 6r


Further reading

Lawson, A., Martin, E. and Priddy, D., The Barrows of East Anglia, East Anglian Archaeology no. 12, 1981  http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report12/