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Blake Low bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Derbyshire, England. The monument is a bowl barrow, a common funerary monument type of prehistoric date characterised by a raised circular mound with a surrounding ditch. As with many similar barrows in the Peak District region, it represents an important element of the ritual and burial landscape of early prehistoric communities in the Midlands. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry number 1011856.
Blake Low bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011856. View the official record →
Blake Low bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Derbyshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011856.
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 1011856.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Conksbury deserted medieval settlement (7.9 km), Bowl barrow on Haddon Fields (8.2 km), Rowsley Bridge (8.5 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 Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.