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Blake Low bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. The monument takes the form of a bowl barrow, a common funerary structure of the Bronze Age characterised by a rounded mound of earth and stone raised over an inhumed or cremated burial. Such barrows typically date from the second millennium before Christ and represent important evidence of burial practices and social organisation during the Bronze Age period. The site's survival as an identifiable archaeological feature contributes to understanding the prehistoric settlement and ritual landscape of Staffordshire.
Blake Low bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008969. View the official record →
Blake Low bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008969.
Blake Low bowl barrow 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 1008969.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 230m west of summit of Musden Low (9.1 km), Bowl barrow on Milk Hill (9.2 km), Bowl barrow 50m west of summit of Musden Low (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Blake Low bowl barrow'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.
Blake Low bowl barrow stands on Bowland High Group And Craven Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.