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Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery
52.8620° N, -0.6790° E
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The Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery is a group of at least eleven Middle Bronze Age round barrows south of Grantham, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Five of the barrows were destroyed by ironstone quarrying in 1959; the remaining six are scheduled monuments. The sites have been placed on the Heritage at Risk Register.
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Quarrying period
1950s–1970s
Quarry opened and barrows damaged
1959
Rescue excavation by Ernest Greenfield
1959
Fieldwalking finds
1960s–1970s
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