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Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow group

England
List entry 1010564
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1010564
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.13 hectares
Grid reference
TF 77512 31011
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation is a prehistoric burial mound forming part of the Great Bircham barrow group in Norfolk. The monument dates to the Bronze Age and represents the funerary practices of early Bronze Age communities in East Anglia. As a bowl barrow, it would have originally consisted of a circular mound of earth constructed over a central burial or cremation, characteristic of burial monuments constructed during the second millennium BC. The site is registered on the National Heritage List for England under entry 1010564 and survives as an important archaeological resource within the wider barrow cemetery of the Great Bircham group.

Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow group is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010564. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow group?

Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation is a prehistoric burial mound forming part of the Great Bircham barrow group in Norfolk. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010564.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow group?

Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow group 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 1010564.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow group?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 250m ESE of St Lawrence's Church (5.3 km), West Rudham long barrow (6.7 km), Long barrow on Harpley Common, 650m ESE of Cross's Grave (6.8 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Bowl barrow 250m ESE of St Lawrence's Church
5.3 km
West Rudham long barrow
6.7 km
Long barrow on Harpley Common, 650m ESE of Cross's Grave
6.8 km
Bell barrow on West Rudham Common, 950m SSE of the Grange
7.3 km
Moated site in Hillington Park
7.4 km
Two bowl barrows on West Rudham Common, 1300m east of the Grange
7.9 km
Bowl barrow on West Rudham Common, 1250m east of the Grange
7.9 km
Bowl barrow north and west of Gravelpit Wood, 1380m south east of the Grange
8.3 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow group

Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow group stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

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