Bowl barrow 200m north of Flanchford Road: part of Reigate Heath round barrow cemetery

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 200m north of Flanchford Road is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Reigate Heath round barrow cemetery in Surrey. The monument is a bowl barrow, the most common form of round barrow, comprising a mound of earth and stone raised over a central burial deposit. It dates to the Bronze Age period, when such communal and individual burial monuments were characteristic of settlement and ritual practice across southern England. The barrow cemetery at Reigate Heath represents a significant concentration of prehistoric funerary monuments, indicating the importance of this location as a burial ground during the Bronze Age.

Bowl barrow 200m north of Flanchford Road: part of Reigate Heath round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008849. View the official record →

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