Scheduled monuments in Herefordshire

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Herefordshire has 273 scheduled monuments. These are nationally important historic sites protected by law. They date back to ancient times and include barrows, churchyard crosses, ruined abbeys, castles, and Iron Age hill forts. Scheduling started in the UK to protect such sites, and they are protected under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.