The monument includes the buried and upstanding remains of Lexden Mount, an earthen burial mound, or barrow, located in the garden of No 11 Wordsworth Road, south of London Road and some 2.5km west of Colchester town centre. The barrow is circular in plan, measuring some 30m in diameter and 5m high. The mound may originally have been completely conical in profile, but by 1759 when William Stukeley included an illustration of the barrow in his study of the earthworks on Lexden Heath, the summit appears to have been flattened. Stukeley, who referred to the mound as ‘Cunobelin Tumulus’ (the burial of the British king Cunobelin), depicted the barrow crowned by an ornamental copse, encircled by a low wall or hedge and ascended by a path across the northern slope. The single documented investigation of the barrow took place in 1910 under the auspices of the Morant Club. Excavation was limited in scale but the approximate age of the barrow was established by the presence of fragments of Roman tiles in the material of the mound. The central burial area was found to have been disturbed or robbed at an earlier date. All fences and garden features are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath these features is included. The Roman barrow known as ‘Lexden Mount’ lies within the borders of an extensive late Iron Age settlement surrounding modern Colchester (‘Camulodunum’ in antiquity). This settlement, or territorial oppidum (after the Latin ‘oppida’ for town), encompassed an area of about 25 sq km between the converging courses of the River Colne and the Roman River to the west of the Colne estuary. In addition to the rivers the settlement was defined and protected by the largest group of linear earthworks of the period in Britain. Although partly excavated in 1910 (and found to have been previously disturbed) Lexden Mount remains substantially intact. Although the central burial, most probably that of a native aristocrat, has been disturbed, further burials may remain undisturbed both beneath the barrow and within the sides of the mound. The mound itself will contain valuable evidence for the date and manner of its construction, and the old ground surface, sealed at the time of the barrow’s construction, may retain evidence of funerary rituals or earlier activity within this part of the oppidum. The Mount is one of the more prominent funerary monuments of Camulodunum and, together with the other high status burial sites in the area, provides significant insights into the continuation of elite burial practices under Roman government. <1>