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Bowl barrow 120m north-west of the footbridge is a Bronze Age round barrow located on Shelley Common in Essex, England. The monument forms part of a group of three barrows on the common, surviving as an earthwork burial mound characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practices in Essex. The barrow is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry 1009242, indicating its status as a designated archaeological monument of national importance. Such Bronze Age bowl barrows typically date to the second millennium before the Common Era and represent significant evidence of prehistoric settlement and ritual activity in the region.
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 →
Bowl barrow 120m north-west of the footbridge is a Bronze Age round barrow located on Shelley Common in Essex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009242.
Bowl barrow 120m north-west of the footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley Common 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 1009242.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 90m north-west of the footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley Common (0 km), Bowl barrow 50m north-west of footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley Common (0.1 km), Ongar Castle (2.1 km).
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Bowl barrow 120m north-west of the footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley Common stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.