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Round Loaf
53.6590° N, -2.5492° E
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Round Loaf is a late-Neolithic or Bronze Age tumulus on Anglezarke Moor in the West Pennine Moors near Chorley in Lancashire, England. The bowl barrow is a scheduled monument considered to be of national importance. It was first scheduled in March 1954. The structure is aligned between Great Hill and Pikestones.
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Scheduling as a monument
March 1954
Bowl barrow construction period
c. 2400–1500 BC
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