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Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant

England
List entry 1010505
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1010505
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.02 hectares
Grid reference
ST 95893 38807
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire, England. The monument consists of a roughly circular earthen mound characteristic of bowl barrows, a common form of sepulchral monument dating from the Bronze Age period. Its location within the densely barrow-rich landscape near Mount Pleasant, an important Neolithic henge monument, situates it within a significant prehistoric ritual and burial complex. The barrow would have originally contained inhumations or cremations typical of Bronze Age funerary practice, though the specific contents and detailed form of the mound are not extensively documented in readily accessible scholarly sources.

Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010505. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant?

Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010505.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant?

Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant 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 1010505.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 540m north of Woodbine Barn (3.7 km), Bowl barrow in High Park on south facing slope of Fonthill Down (4.1 km), Earthwork enclosure in Penning Wood, 290m NE of Penning (4.6 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
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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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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Bowl barrow 540m north of Woodbine Barn
3.7 km
Bowl barrow in High Park on south facing slope of Fonthill Down
4.1 km
Earthwork enclosure in Penning Wood, 290m NE of Penning
4.6 km
Ditch, 343yds (310m) ENE of East Farm Cottages to 800yds (730m) NW of St Martin's Chapel
4.8 km
Field system on Wylye Down
5.1 km
The Bake and Wylye Down milestones
5.8 km
Hanging Langford camp and Church-end Ring
6.3 km
Roman site in Upper Holt, Teffont Magna
7.5 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant

Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant

StonehengeArchaeological site · ~10.3 milesOld SarumArchaeological site · ~11.6 milesWest Kennet Long BarrowArchaeological site · ~19.8 milesSilbury HillArchaeological site · ~20.4 milesBattle of Roundway Down 1643Battle (1643) · ~16.7 milesBattle of Lansdown (Hill) 1643Battle (1643) · ~24.2 milesBattle of LansdowneBattle (1643) · ~24.5 miles
Domesday entry for Boyton, Wiltshire →
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