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Bowl barrow 400m west of Mount Pleasant is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, England. The barrow comprises a roughly circular mound of earth and stone characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary monument type of the third and second millennia before Christ. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status of the deceased. The barrow's survival as an identifiable earthwork contributes to the archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary practices in the Wiltshire landscape.
Bowl barrow 400m west of Mount Pleasant is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010516. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 400m west of Mount Pleasant is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010516.
Bowl barrow 400m 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 1010516.
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 (4.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 400m west of Mount Pleasant's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bowl barrow 400m west of Mount Pleasant stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.