Bowl barrow 250m south-west of Tangham Cottages in Tangham Forest

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 250m south-west of Tangham Cottages in Tangham Forest is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Suffolk, England. The barrow survives as a substantial earthwork mound characteristic of the bowl barrow form, which typically comprises a circular burial chamber surmounted by an earth and chalk mound. Such monuments represent significant funerary structures of the Bronze Age period, serving as communal or high-status burial sites within their contemporary landscape. The barrow's survival within Tangham Forest indicates its preservation within a managed woodland environment, though like many such monuments it may have experienced erosion or modification over the course of subsequent centuries.

Bowl barrow 250m south-west of Tangham Cottages in Tangham Forest is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013879. View the official record →

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