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The Bowl Barrow 230m North of Harlow Hospital is a scheduled monument located in Essex, England, at grid reference TL 44040 10422. It occupies a scheduled area of 0.06 hectares and is protected by Historic England under reference number 1009239. The monument sits upon bedrock formed from the Thames Group, a geological formation of the Eocene epoch composed of clay, silt, sand and gravel deposits.
Bowl barrows are Bronze Age burial mounds dating typically to between 2000 and 1200 BC. They represent one of the most common funerary monuments of prehistoric Britain, constructed as earthen mounds over cremated or inhumed human remains, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status of the deceased. The form consists of a simple hemispherical or bowl-shaped mound, hence the name, usually with a central burial chamber or pit.
This example survives in the Harlow area, where such monuments would have been positioned within Bronze Age settlement landscapes and ritual territories. The underlying Thames Group geology, with its mixed sediments, would have been available locally as material for construction. The monument's survival and scheduling reflect its importance as physical evidence of early Bronze Age funerary practices and community organisation in Essex during the second millennium BC.
Bowl barrow 230m north of Harlow Hospital is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009239. View the official record →
The Bowl Barrow 230m North of Harlow Hospital is a scheduled monument located in Essex, England, at grid reference TL 44040 10422.
Bowl barrow 230m north of Harlow Hospital 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 1009239.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cold War Heavy Anti-aircraft gun site, 330m and 220m north east of Halls Green Farm (2.8 km), Moated site 350m south of Dorrington Farm (4 km), Latton Priory (4.6 km).
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Bowl barrow 230m north of Harlow Hospital stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.