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Bowl barrow 30m west of the Farway Common Road, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Farway Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located on Farway Hill in Devon. The monument is a bowl barrow, a common form of burial cairn characteristic of the Bronze Age period, and forms part of a wider cemetery of round barrows on the hill, indicating this was an area of concentrated funerary activity during prehistory. Such barrows typically contained cremated or inhumed remains and often reflect the social status and ritual practices of Bronze Age communities. The site's survival as part of a barrow cemetery demonstrates the landscape's continued significance as a burial ground across multiple generations of Bronze Age occupation.
Bowl barrow 30m west of the Farway Common Road, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Farway Hill. is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010279. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 30m west of the Farway Common Road, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Farway Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located on Farway Hill in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010279.
Bowl barrow 30m west of the Farway Common Road, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Farway Hill. 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 1010279.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (0.5 km), Two bowl barrows to the north west of Roncombe Gate Farm, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (0.8 km), Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down (1.6 km).
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Bowl barrow 30m west of the Farway Common Road, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Farway Hill. stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.