Bowl barrow 100m NNW of The Plantation: one of a dispersed group of barrows on Stockbridge Down

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 100m NNW of The Plantation is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Stockbridge Down in Hampshire, England. The barrow is a representative example of the bowl-shaped burial mounds that characterise Bronze Age mortuary practice in southern England, typically comprising an earthen mound raised over a central grave or cremation deposit. It forms part of a dispersed group of barrows distributed across Stockbridge Down, reflecting the importance of this locality as a focus for Bronze Age burial activity. The monument survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains of archaeological significance for the evidence it preserves concerning Bronze Age burial rites and the ritual landscape of the Hampshire downlands.

Bowl barrow 100m NNW of The Plantation: one of a dispersed group of barrows on Stockbridge Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014782. View the official record →

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