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Bowl barrow 40m north of Rushley Barn is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Staffordshire. The barrow takes the form of a circular earthwork mound characteristic of the Bronze Age burial tradition in the English Midlands, constructed to cover and commemorate the inhumation or cremation of deceased individuals of likely elevated social status. The monument's survival as an upstanding earthwork demonstrates the durability of such structures across millennia, though like many barrows of this period its internal construction and contents remain largely unknown without modern archaeological excavation. Its scheduled status reflects the archaeological importance of Bronze Age burial monuments as evidence of early social organisation and funerary practice in the region.
Bowl barrow 40m north of Rushley Barn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015957. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 40m north of Rushley Barn is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Staffordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015957.
Bowl barrow 40m north of Rushley 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 1015957.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mayfield strip lynchets (6.5 km), Bowl barrow 440m north of Banks Farm (6.9 km), Row Low bowl barrow (7.5 km).
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