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Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages

England
List entry 1007733
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1007733
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.21 hectares
Grid reference
TA 15129 63789
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire. The site is designated as a scheduled ancient monument and forms part of the archaeological record of Bronze Age burial practices in the region. Bowl barrows of this type typically comprised a mound of earth constructed over a central burial, often accompanied by grave goods, and represent a widespread funerary tradition across Yorkshire and wider Bronze Age Britain dating to approximately 2200–700 BC.

Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007733. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages?

Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007733.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages?

Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages 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 1007733.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm (2.7 km), Deserted medieval village of Hilderthorpe with associated ridge and furrow field system (2.8 km), Wharram Hill embankment cross (3.3 km).

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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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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm
2.7 km
Deserted medieval village of Hilderthorpe with associated ridge and furrow field system
2.8 km
Wharram Hill embankment cross
3.3 km
Bowl barrow in Lady Boynton's Whin
3.3 km
Burton Agnes 12th-century manor house
4.9 km
Medieval complex at Barmston Old Hall, including two moated sites, a pond, three fishponds and associated enclosures with part of a field system.
5.1 km
Rudston Beacon and round barrows to east
5.6 km
Earthwork on the Sheepwalk stretching N from Wold Gate for 530yds (480m)
5.7 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages

Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow 200m west of Crest Cottages

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