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Bowl barrow 250m northeast of King Down Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated in Somerset. The barrow takes the form of a circular mound with a pronounced bowl-shaped profile, a characteristic feature of Bronze Age burial architecture in the region. It survives as an earthwork monument and represents the burial practices of prehistoric communities who utilised such structures as focal points for interment and associated ritual activity during the Bronze Age period. The monument is recorded on the National Heritage List for England and remains an important archaeological resource for understanding early metalworking societies in Somerset.
Bowl barrow 250m northeast of King Down Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011530. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 250m northeast of King Down Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011530.
Bowl barrow 250m northeast of King Down 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 1011530.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bracelet Cave (6.2 km), Duck decoy east of Barrow Wood Lane (6.6 km), Badger Hole, Wookey (6.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 250m northeast of King Down Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 250m northeast of King Down Farm stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.