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A bowl barrow 460m NNW of Ring-in-the-Mire is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Gittisham Hill in Devon, England. It forms part of a round barrow cemetery, indicating a significant zone of prehistoric mortuary activity on the hilltop. The monument is a bowl barrow, the simplest form of round barrow, consisting of a mound of earth raised over a central burial. Its presence within a larger barrow group demonstrates the importance of this location as a burial landscape during the Bronze Age.
A bowl barrow 460m NNW of Ring-in-the-Mire, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Gittisham Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014248. View the official record →
A bowl barrow 460m NNW of Ring-in-the-Mire is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Gittisham Hill in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014248.
A bowl barrow 460m NNW of Ring-in-the-Mire, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Gittisham Hill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1014248.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 100m south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (1.7 km), Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (1.7 km), Two bowl barrows to the north west of Roncombe Gate Farm, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (2.1 km).
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A bowl barrow 460m NNW of Ring-in-the-Mire, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Gittisham Hill stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.