Scheduled MonumentsEnglandBell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down

Bell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down

England
List entry 1009560
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1009560
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.32 hectares
Grid reference
SU 18033 41904
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Earl's Farm Down in Wiltshire. The site consists of a bell-shaped barrow, a distinctive form of burial mound characteristic of the later Bronze Age period, featuring a central mound surrounded by a ditch and outer bank. Such monuments represent important funerary structures of the Bronze Age communities that inhabited the Wessex downlands, and this example contributes to the substantial archaeological landscape of barrows found across Earl's Farm Down. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains a designated heritage monument reflecting the mortuary practices of Bronze Age society in southern England.

Bell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009560. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down?

Bell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Earl's Farm Down in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009560.

Who is responsible for protecting Bell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down?

Bell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down 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 1009560.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 50m west of the Battery Hill triangulation point (7.5 km), Long barrow 140m WSW of the Battery Hill triangulation point (7.5 km), Figsbury Ring (8.1 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down

Bell barrow 650m east of the Pennings, Earl's Farm Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.