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Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill is a scheduled monument in Wiltshire, England, situated on the rolling chalk landscape of the county's interior. The barrow occupies a small scheduled area of 0.06 hectares and sits directly upon White Chalk Subgroup bedrock, which formed during the Maastrichtian geological period and underlies much of this region. Located at grid reference SU 07866 64901, the monument is protected by Historic England under reference 1013044.
This bowl barrow represents the burial practice of Bronze Age communities who favoured simple, dome-shaped earthen mounds constructed over cremated or inhumed remains. The chalk bedrock beneath the site would have been accessible to Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples, who exploited it for tool manufacture and left scattered flint working debris across contemporary settlement sites throughout the Wiltshire chalk uplands.
The barrow's survival as an upstanding earthwork depends upon the stability of both the chalk substrate and the overlying soil accumulated through millennia. Its scheduled status reflects the archaeological importance of Bronze Age funerary monuments, which remain crucial to understanding settlement patterns, social organisation and burial practices across prehistoric southern England.
Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013044. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill is a scheduled monument in Wiltshire, England, situated on the rolling chalk landscape of the county's interior. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013044.
Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan 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 1013044.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site (1.5 km), Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill (3.7 km), Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage (3.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.