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Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery

England
List entry 1015154
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1015154
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.04 hectares
Grid reference
SS 69589 16039
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It forms part of a round barrow cemetery, indicating a concentrated area of prehistoric funerary activity within this upland landscape. The monument survives as an earthwork with the characteristic bowl-shaped mound typical of barrows of this period, representing an important component of the Bronze Age burial tradition on Dartmoor. Such barrow cemeteries demonstrate the significance of particular locations for funeral rites and ancestral commemoration during the prehistoric period.

Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015154. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery?

Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015154.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery?

Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery 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 1015154.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 280m north east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery (0.1 km), Bowl barrow 530m north of Parsonage, forming part of a bowl barrow cemetery on Horridge Moor (0.4 km), A bowl barrow and ring ditch 700m WNW of Challacombe Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horridge Moor (0.4 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Bowl barrow 280m north east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery
0.1 km
Bowl barrow 530m north of Parsonage, forming part of a bowl barrow cemetery on Horridge Moor
0.4 km
A bowl barrow and ring ditch 700m WNW of Challacombe Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horridge Moor
0.4 km
Bowl barrow 590m north west of Challacombe Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horridge Moor
0.6 km
Castle 175m north of Stone Barton
2.6 km
Heywood Castle
3.9 km
Eggesford Castle, 640m north east of Eggesford House
4.5 km
Standing cross known as Speke's Cross, 500m north east of Eggesford House
4.6 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery

Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow 330m east of Beacon Moor Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery

ExeterRoman town · ~20.1 miles
Domesday entry for Chulmleigh, Devon →
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