Bowl barrow 100m north east of Green Place: one of a dispersed group of barrows on Stockbridge Down

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 100m north east of Green Place is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Stockbridge Down in Hampshire. The barrow is one of a dispersed group of similar earthwork monuments that occupy this downland landscape, reflecting patterns of prehistoric burial practice and settlement across the chalk uplands of central Hampshire. As a bowl barrow, the monument comprises a simple mounded earthwork of soil and flint, characteristic of burial structures erected during the Bronze Age period. The site forms part of the important archaeological resource represented by the barrow cemetery on Stockbridge Down, which preserves evidence of ritual and funerary activity spanning the second millennium before the present era.

Bowl barrow 100m north east of Green Place: one of a dispersed group of barrows on Stockbridge Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013636. View the official record →

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