Search
Menu
Home
Sources
About
Contacts
Seven Barrows
Seven
Barrows
is a
biological
Site of Special Scientific Interest
north of
Lambourn
in
Berkshire
. It is managed by the
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust
and it is a
Scheduled Monument
.
The site is part of a
Bronze Age
cemetery with
scattered
bowl
barrows
. The area is an
unimproved
chalk grassland
with a
rich
flora and over
100
species of
herbs
have been recorded. It is also very rich in
insects
, especially butterflies, including
small blue
,
brown argus
,
chalkhill blue
,
dark green fritillary
and the scarce
marsh fritillary
.