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Bowl barrow 430m southwest of King Down Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Somerset, England. The monument consists of a simple hemispherical earthwork characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice, when such barrows served as monuments to individual or small group burials. Its survival to the present day, despite subsequent agricultural use of the landscape, makes it an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement and burial practices in Somerset. The barrow remains a scheduled ancient monument, reflecting its significance as evidence of Bronze Age activity in the region.
Bowl barrow 430m southwest of King Down Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011521. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 430m southwest of King Down Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011521.
Bowl barrow 430m southwest 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 1011521.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bracelet Cave (5.9 km), Duck decoy east of Barrow Wood Lane (6 km), Badger Hole, Wookey (6.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 430m southwest 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 southwest of King Down Farm stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.