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Bowl barrow 160m north west of the Farway Common Road is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill in Devon. The monument consists of a circular earthwork typical of bowl barrows, a burial form prevalent during the Bronze Age across southern England. Located within a landscape rich in prehistoric funerary monuments, this barrow represents evidence of settlement and ritual practices in the upland regions of Devon during the second millennium BCE. The barrow group on Farway Hill demonstrates the importance of this locality as a focus for burials across an extended period of the Bronze Age.
Bowl barrow 160m north west of the Farway Common Road, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010270. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 160m north west of the Farway Common Road is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010270.
Bowl barrow 160m north west of the Farway Common Road, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway 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 1010270.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 100m south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (1.8 km), Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (1.9 km), Two bowl barrows to the north west of Roncombe Gate Farm, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (2.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 160m north west of the Farway Common Road, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill'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 160m north west of the Farway Common Road, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.