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Bowl barrow 400m south of Normanton Gorse is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Normanton Down in Wiltshire. The barrow takes the form of a circular earthwork mound typical of the Bronze Age burial tradition, constructed during the second millennium BCE. It forms part of the significant concentration of barrows in this region, which reflects intensive ceremonial and burial activity during the Bronze Age period. Such monuments are archaeologically important as indicators of settlement patterns, social organisation, and funerary practices in prehistoric Wiltshire.
Bowl barrow 400m south of Normanton Gorse is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009623. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 400m south of Normanton Gorse is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Normanton Down in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009623.
Bowl barrow 400m south of Normanton Gorse 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 1009623.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newton Barrow (5.5 km), Group of barrows on North Hill Down (7.7 km), Grovely Castle and earthworks N of Grovely Wood (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 400m south of Normanton Gorse's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 400m south of Normanton Gorse stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.