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Bowl barrow 400m west of Normanton Gorse is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire. The monument consists of a simple bowl-shaped earthwork typical of the Bronze Age barrow tradition, constructed as a funerary structure for elite or significant community members. It is situated within the dense barrow cemetery landscape of the Normanton area, an important prehistoric ritual and burial zone on the Wiltshire downlands. The barrow remains as an upstanding earthwork, preserving evidence of ancient funerary practices from the third or second millennium BC.
Bowl barrow 400m west of Normanton Gorse is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010831. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 400m west of Normanton Gorse is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010831.
Bowl barrow 400m west 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 1010831.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork W of Woodford Clump (5.6 km), Newton Barrow (5.8 km), Grovely Castle and earthworks N of Grovely Wood (8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 400m west of Normanton Gorse'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 Normanton Gorse stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.