The Three Tremblers Round Barrows

The Three Tremblers form a line of three round barrows near the northern edge of the Tabular Hills. Their earthen mounds vary in size, with the largest approximately thirty metres across and 2.7 metres high. All three contain central hollows left by partial excavation. The north-western and south-eastern mounds originally had kerbs of stones supporting and defining their edges, although many stones have since disappeared or become buried beneath slipping soil. Nineteenth-century investigation of the south-eastern barrow revealed a cist, a stone-slab compartment enclosing a burial. This provides direct funerary evidence for the group. The barrows stand within a dense prehistoric landscape containing other burial monuments, settlements and land divisions. Their surviving form records both ancient construction and later investigation, while remaining deposits may retain details absent from the earlier excavation accounts. Period: Prehistoric; broad Late Neolithic to Bronze Age attribution Grid reference: SE 93547 87925 Protection: Scheduled monument Source: Historic England, https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1019352 (Open Government Licence). © Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Banner photo: "One of the Three Tremblers" by T Eyre, via Geograph (https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6865734), licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.