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Bowl barrow 280m north of Downs Barn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, England. The barrow represents a characteristic form of funerary architecture dating to the second millennium before the Common Era, when such earthworks were constructed to mark high-status burials and serve as prominent landscape features within the prehistoric community. The monument consists of a circular mound of earth and stone, typical of bowl barrows found across Wessex, which functioned both as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains and as enduring territorial markers within the agricultural landscape.
Bowl barrow 280m north of Downs Barn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010419. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 280m north of Downs Barn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010419.
Bowl barrow 280m north of Downs Barn 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 1010419.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Village cross (5.6 km), Bowl barrow 850m WNW of Dudmore Lodge (6 km), Banjo enclosure 480m south west of Cheldene (6.7 km).
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