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Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm

England
List entry 1004407
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1004407
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.11 hectares
Grid reference
SX1356487009
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument situated in Cornwall. The barrow takes the form of a simple bowl-shaped mound, characteristic of funerary structures erected during the Bronze Age period, typically between approximately 2200 and 700 BCE. Such monuments were used as burial places and served important ritual and commemorative functions within prehistoric communities. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry 1004407, reflecting its protected status as an archaeological feature of national significance.

Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004407. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm?

Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument situated in Cornwall. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004407.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm?

Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm 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 1004407.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor (8.8 km), Kerbed cairn 415m NNW of Candra (8.8 km), Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra (9 km).

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Monuments
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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

Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor
8.8 km
Kerbed cairn 415m NNW of Candra
8.8 km
Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra
9 km
Kerbed cairn 500m east of Casehill
9.1 km
King Arthur's Hall
9.4 km
Hut circle 440yds (400m) SW of Candra
9.4 km
Two small stone circles 530m ESE of King Arthur's Hall
9.5 km
Prehistoric hut circle and field system 440m south west of Treswallock Cottage
9.6 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm

Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm

Battle of Stratton 1643Battle (1643) · ~13.7 milesBattle of Braddock Down (1643)Battle (1643) · ~15.1 milesBattle of Lostwithiel 21 August 1644Battle (1644) · ~16.3 milesBattle of Lostwithiel 31 August - 1 September 1644Battle (1644) · ~19.5 miles
Domesday entry for Treslay, Cornwall →
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