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Bowl barrow 100m north of the A303 on Countess Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. The barrow is designated as a scheduled monument and represents the type of burial mound characteristic of the Bronze Age period, when such earthworks served as communal or high-status burial sites across southern England. The monument's location on Countess Farm, positioned north of the modern A303 road, places it within the landscape of the Wiltshire chalklands, an area rich in prehistoric archaeology. As a surviving example of Bronze Age mortuary practice, the barrow contributes to understanding settlement patterns and ritual activity in the region during the second millennium BC.
Bowl barrow 100m north of the A303 on Countess Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009143. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 100m north of the A303 on Countess Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009143.
Bowl barrow 100m north of the A303 on Countess Farm 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 1009143.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newton Barrow (7.8 km), A pond barrow and a bowl barrow 200m south east of St Mary's Church forming outliers to a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Gunner (8 km), Horse Barrow (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 100m north of the A303 on Countess Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 100m north of the A303 on Countess Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.