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Bowl barrow 430m northwest of King Down Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset. The barrow is a bowl-shaped mound, a common burial form of the Bronze Age period, constructed as a monument to mark and contain inhumation or cremation deposits. Its survival into the modern period, despite centuries of agricultural activity across the Somerset landscape, demonstrates the robustness of such earthwork constructions. The site's official designation within the National Heritage List for England reflects its archaeological importance as evidence of prehistoric burial practices and settlement patterns in the region.
Bowl barrow 430m northwest of King Down Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011519. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 430m northwest of King Down Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011519.
Bowl barrow 430m northwest of King Down Farm 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 1011519.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bracelet Cave (6.2 km), Duck decoy east of Barrow Wood Lane (6.3 km), Badger Hole, Wookey (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 430m northwest of King Down Farm'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 430m northwest of King Down Farm stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.