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Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn

England
List entry 1010648
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1010648
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.07 hectares
Grid reference
ST 55094 50086
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn is a prehistoric burial mound located in Somerset, England. The monument is a bowl barrow, a form of round barrow characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice, typically consisting of an earthen mound raised over a central burial. As with many surviving examples of this class across southern Britain, the barrow represents evidence of ritual deposition and commemorative landscape use during the Bronze Age period. The site is recorded in the National Heritage List for England under entry 1010648, indicating its archaeological and historical significance as a scheduled monument.

Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010648. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn?

Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn is a prehistoric burial mound located in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010648.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn?

Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn 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 1010648.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rhinoceros Hole, Wookey (2.8 km), Browne's Gate (4.2 km), Bishop's Palace ruined portions, walls and well house (4.4 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
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Historical Maps
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Rhinoceros Hole, Wookey
2.8 km
Browne's Gate
4.2 km
Bishop's Palace ruined portions, walls and well house
4.4 km
Bishop's tithe barn
4.6 km
King's Castle enclosures, Iron Age defended settlement
4.8 km
Bishop's palace
5.5 km
Maesbury Castle small multivallate hillfort
6.7 km
Medieval standing cross 80m south of St Mary's Church
7 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn

Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow 170m south-east of Hunter's Lodge Inn

Glastonbury AbbeyArchaeological site · ~7.7 milesBathRoman town · ~15.4 milesCadbury CastleArchaeological site · ~16.2 milesIlchesterRoman town · ~17.1 milesBattle of Sedgemoor 1685Battle (1685) · ~15.2 milesBattle of Langport 1645Battle (1645) · ~15.6 milesBattle of Lansdown (Hill) 1643Battle (1643) · ~16.4 milesBattle of LansdowneBattle (1643) · ~16.5 miles
Domesday entry for Wells, Somerset →
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