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Bowl barrow 430m south west of Fairy Cross Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a round barrow cemetery in Cornwall. The monument is a bowl barrow, the most common type of round barrow, comprising a circular earthwork mound constructed to cover inhumation or cremation burials. As part of a barrow cemetery, it demonstrates the clustering of funerary monuments characteristic of Bronze Age burial practice, indicating intensive use of the landscape for ritual and mortuary purposes over an extended period. The monument is scheduled for protection as an ancient monument of national importance.
Bowl barrow 430m south west of Fairy Cross Farm forming part of a round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003081. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 430m south west of Fairy Cross Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a round barrow cemetery in Cornwall. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003081.
Bowl barrow 430m south west of Fairy Cross Farm forming part of a round barrow cemetery 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 1003081.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Lerryn Bridge (5.1 km), Small multivallate hillfort called Castle Dore (7.3 km), Linear boundary called the Giant's Hedge (7.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 430m south west of Fairy Cross Farm forming part of a round barrow cemetery's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 430m south west of Fairy Cross Farm forming part of a round barrow cemetery stands on Lower Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.