Bowl barrow 120m north-west of the footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley Common

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 120m north-west of the footbridge is a Bronze Age round barrow located on Shelley Common in Essex. It forms part of a barrow cemetery comprising three round mounds on the common, representing burial monuments of the second millennium before Christ. The barrow is of the bowl type, characterized by a simple hemispherical mound of earth, a form typical of Bronze Age funerary practice in Essex. As one of three surviving examples on Shelley Common, it contributes to an important local concentration of prehistoric burial monuments, though the original ground surface and any internal structural features are no longer distinctly visible.

Bowl barrow 120m north-west of the footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009242. View the official record →

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