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Bowl barrow 420m east of Smythen Cross is a Bronze Age burial monument situated within a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down in Devon. The barrow survives as a low earthwork mound characteristic of bowl barrow form, the most common type of round barrow found in Britain during the Bronze Age. It forms part of a significant concentration of burial mounds on Berry Down, which represents sustained ritual and funerary activity across the second millennium before Christ. The monument is protected as a scheduled ancient monument under English Heritage legislation, reflecting its archaeological importance as evidence of prehistoric settlement patterns and mortuary practice in southwest England.
Bowl barrow 420m east of Smythen Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019259. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 420m east of Smythen Cross is a Bronze Age burial monument situated within a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019259.
Bowl barrow 420m east of Smythen Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down 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 1019259.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 470m south east of Smythen Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down (0.2 km), Two bowl barrows 170m west and 200m south west of Berry Down Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down (0.4 km), Three bowl barrows 470m south west of Berry Down Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down (0.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 420m east of Smythen Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 420m east of Smythen Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.