I spent £1,000 to be enshrined with my husband in a Bronze Age burial mound when I die - here's why it's the perfect resting place Burial mounds are being built around England to store cremation urns in peace READ MORE: Britons are paying thousands for a Bronze Age-style resting place By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline Published: 15:21, 26 May 2024 | Updated: 15:24, 26 May 2024 e-mail View comments It was about a decade ago that Hampshire healthcare professional Caroline Knight heard about an unusual new project. Tim Daw, a Wiltshire farmer, was transforming his land into a Bronze Age-style burial mound – a round stone structure covered by huge heap of earth. Inspired by the original burial 'barrows' or 'tumuli' dating back 5,000 years, the structure at All Cannings near Devizes would hold urns containing people's ashes.
The idea instantly resonated with Mrs Knight, now 73, who was born and mostly raised on nearby Salisbury Plain when her father was in the Royal Artillery. 'Tumuli are just a natural part of the landscape there and were very familiar to us,' she told MailOnline. Caroline Knight and her husband Tony (pictured) decided to pay to have their ashes in a Bronze Age-style burial mound in Wiltshire The first modern burial mound - All Cannings, near Devizes in Wiltshire (pictured) - opened around a decade ago and since then several more have been built The practice of building the large tomb to store the remains of the dead dates back more than 5,000 years.
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