Bowl barrow 130m south of Buckland Road: part of Reigate Heath round barrow cemetery

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 130m south of Buckland Road is a Bronze Age burial mound located within the Reigate Heath round barrow cemetery in Surrey. The monument is a simple bowl barrow, characterized by a circular mound of earth and stone raised over an inhumed burial, typical of funerary practices during the Bronze Age period. As part of the wider cemetery complex at Reigate Heath, it forms part of an important cluster of prehistoric burial monuments that testify to sustained ritual and mortuary activity in this area during antiquity. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument and remains a significant archaeological record of Bronze Age settlement patterns and burial customs in south-eastern England.

Bowl barrow 130m south of Buckland Road: part of Reigate Heath round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008851. View the official record →

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