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Bell barrow 520m west of Pendown is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Cornwall. The barrow takes the form of a bell-shaped mound, a distinctive type of round barrow characteristic of the Bronze Age funerary tradition, with the defining feature of a ditch that does not run continuously around the base but is interrupted. The monument survives as an earthwork and represents an important element of the Bronze Age ceremonial landscape of the Cornish peninsula. Such barrows typically date to the second millennium BCE and mark the burial places of individuals of status within prehistoric communities.
Bell barrow 520m west of Pendown is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016106. View the official record →
Bell barrow 520m west of Pendown is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Cornwall. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016106.
Bell barrow 520m west of Pendown 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 1016106.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 230m south east of Chapel Farm (6.9 km), Roman milestone at Mynheer Farm (7.6 km), Bowl barrow 250m south east of Gew (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bell barrow 520m west of Pendown's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bell barrow 520m west of Pendown stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.