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Bowl barrow 400m west of Vicarage Barn is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire. The monument consists of a circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrow construction, a common funerary monument type erected during the Bronze Age period. Such barrows typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods that reflect the social status of the interred individual. This example forms part of the wider barrow landscape of Wiltshire, a county particularly rich in prehistoric funerary monuments that provide evidence for Bronze Age settlement patterns and burial practices.
Bowl barrow 400m west of Vicarage Barn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015944. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 400m west of Vicarage Barn is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015944.
Bowl barrow 400m west of Vicarage Barn 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 1015944.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Berwick Coombe round barrow (7.8 km), Winkelbury camp (9.1 km), Three bowl barrows on Trow Down 520m north west and 545m west of Bigley Buildings (9.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 400m west of Vicarage Barn'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 Vicarage Barn stands on Purbeck Limestone Group, bedrock that formed in the Berriasian. The rock here is limestone and mudstone, interbedded.