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Bowl barrow 175m west of Square Copse is a prehistoric burial mound located in the Square Copse barrow cemetery near Basingstoke in Wiltshire. The barrow is a bowl type, one of the commonest forms of Bronze Age funerary monument in southern England, typically comprising a mound of earth and chalk raised over a central burial or cremation deposit. It forms part of a significant linear cemetery of barrows that was in use during the Bronze Age, reflecting patterns of burial and territorial occupation in the prehistoric landscape. The monument is designated as a scheduled ancient monument under the official reference NHLE 1013352.
Bowl barrow 175m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013352. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 175m west of Square Copse is a prehistoric burial mound located in the Square Copse barrow cemetery near Basingstoke in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013352.
Bowl barrow 175m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery 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 1013352.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Defended settlement on Aughton Down, 450m north of Croft Barn (7.3 km), Round barrow cemetery 320m south east of Down Farm (7.6 km), Everleigh Barrows (8.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 175m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery'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 175m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.