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Bowl barrow 150m east of Stonehenge Cottages on A303 is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument situated in Wiltshire, within the extensively studied archaeological landscape surrounding Stonehenge. The barrow takes the form of a simple earthen mound, characteristic of bowl barrows which represent the most common burial monument type in southern England during the third and second millennia BCE. Its location along the A303 road corridor places it within one of Britain's densest concentrations of prehistoric burial mounds, contributing significantly to the monumental character of this important heritage zone. The monument remains a valuable archaeological record of early mortuary practice and settlement patterning in Wessex.
Bowl barrow 150m east of Stonehenge Cottages on A303 is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012129. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 150m east of Stonehenge Cottages on A303 is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument situated in Wiltshire, within the extensively studied archaeological landscape surrounding Stonehenge. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012129.
Bowl barrow 150m east of Stonehenge Cottages on A303 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 1012129.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newton Barrow (7.3 km), A pond barrow and a bowl barrow 200m south east of St Mary's Church forming outliers to a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Gunner (8.2 km), 'Ende Burgh' long barrow (8.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 150m east of Stonehenge Cottages on A303'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 150m east of Stonehenge Cottages on A303 stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.