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Bowl barrow 130m south west of Gaylands, Milking Nook is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Northamptonshire. The monument consists of a simple bowl-shaped earthwork, a common funerary form of the Bronze Age period. Such barrows typically contained inhumations or cremations within a central grave, often accompanied by grave goods. This example forms part of the dispersed pattern of Bronze Age burial monuments characteristic of the Northamptonshire landscape, contributing to understanding of settlement and funerary practice in the region during the second millennium BCE.
Bowl barrow 130m south west of Gaylands, Milking Nook is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021316. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 130m south west of Gaylands, Milking Nook is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Northamptonshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021316.
Bowl barrow 130m south west of Gaylands, Milking Nook 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 1021316.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Old Customs House (7.6 km), Longthorpe village cross (7.6 km), Longthorpe Roman fort and settlement (8.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 130m south west of Gaylands, Milking Nook's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 130m south west of Gaylands, Milking Nook stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.