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Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill

England
List entry 1009115
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1009115
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.02 hectares
Grid reference
SD 89144 34090
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Lancashire, England. The monument survives as a roughly circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a funerary monument type common in Britain during the Bronze Age period. Such barrows typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods that reflect the status and beliefs of their period. The site's survival and scheduled status as a heritage monument reflect its archaeological significance for understanding Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in Lancashire.

Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009115. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill?

Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Lancashire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009115.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill?

Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill 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 1009115.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Twist Castle Romano-British farmstead (0.5 km), Two Romano-British farmsteads known as Ring Stones (1.2 km), Bowl barrow on Hameldon Pasture (1.5 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Twist Castle Romano-British farmstead
0.5 km
Two Romano-British farmsteads known as Ring Stones
1.2 km
Bowl barrow on Hameldon Pasture
1.5 km
Ring cairn on Slipper Hill
1.5 km
Round cairn on Hameldon Pasture
1.5 km
Ice house at Towneley Hall
5 km
Warren at Everage Clough 450m north east of New Copy Farm
5.8 km
Oakmount Mill engine and engine house, Wiseman Street
5.8 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill

Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.

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