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Bowl barrow 260m north of the A303 on Countess Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. The barrow consists of an earthen mound constructed as a burial deposit, characteristic of the round barrow tradition that flourished during the Bronze Age across southern England. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the social status of the deceased. This particular example forms part of the wider landscape of prehistoric ritual and burial sites distributed across the Wiltshire chalklands.
Bowl barrow 260m north of the A303 on Countess Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009139. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 260m north of the A303 on Countess Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009139.
Bowl barrow 260m north of the A303 on Countess 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 1009139.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newton Barrow (8.1 km), A pond barrow and a bowl barrow 200m south east of St Mary's Church forming outliers to a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Gunner (8.1 km), Horse Barrow (8.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 260m north of the A303 on Countess Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 260m north of the A303 on Countess Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.