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Bowl barrow 140m north of Thorswood Plantation is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire. The monument comprises a roughly circular earthwork of modest dimensions, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the second millennium BC. Such barrows typically served as burial monuments for members of Bronze Age communities, often containing inhumations or cremations accompanied by grave goods. The survival of this earthwork in the landscape reflects its protected status as a scheduled ancient monument and represents an important archaeological record of funerary practice in prehistoric Staffordshire.
Bowl barrow 140m north of Thorswood Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009685. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 140m north of Thorswood Plantation is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009685.
Bowl barrow 140m north of Thorswood Plantation 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 1009685.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Marlpit Lane bowl barrow (4.2 km), Ellastone Bridge (4.9 km), Alton Castle (6.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 140m north of Thorswood Plantation's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 140m north of Thorswood Plantation stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.