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Bowl barrow 140m north of Harlow Hospital is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Essex. The barrow survives as an earthwork mound characteristic of bowl barrow form, a common type of burial structure erected across southern England during the Bronze Age. Such monuments typically contained inhumation burials, sometimes accompanied by grave goods, and served as focal points for ritual and commemoration within their communities. This particular example contributes to the archaeological record of burial practices and settlement patterns in the Essex region during later prehistory.
Bowl barrow 140m north of Harlow Hospital is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009238. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 140m north of Harlow Hospital is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Essex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009238.
Bowl barrow 140m north of Harlow Hospital 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 1009238.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site 350m south of Dorrington Farm (3.9 km), Latton Priory (4.5 km), Nether Hall (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 140m north of Harlow Hospital's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bowl barrow 140m north of Harlow Hospital stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.