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Bowl barrow 400m north west of Ranger's Lodge in Cornbury Park is a Bronze Age burial mound located within Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire. The monument takes the form of a bowl barrow, a common burial type of the Bronze Age characterised by a circular earthwork mound with a relatively shallow depression at its apex. Though no detailed excavation records for this specific barrow are widely documented, bowl barrows of this type typically date to the second millennium BC and represent funerary monuments associated with Bronze Age communities in southern England. The barrow survives as an earthwork feature within the landscape of Cornbury Park, contributing to the archaeological record of Bronze Age burial practices in the Oxfordshire region.
Bowl barrow 400m north west of Ranger's Lodge in Cornbury Park is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008415. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 400m north west of Ranger's Lodge in Cornbury Park is a Bronze Age burial mound located within Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008415.
Bowl barrow 400m north west of Ranger's Lodge in Cornbury Park 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 1008415.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood (6.4 km), Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods (6.6 km), Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain (7.4 km).
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Bowl barrow 400m north west of Ranger's Lodge in Cornbury Park stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.