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Bowl barrow 435m north west of Ivy Cottage is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Somerset, England. The monument is designated as a scheduled ancient monument and represents a characteristic funerary structure of the Bronze Age period, when such earthen mounds were constructed to mark the graves of individuals of status. The barrow survives as a round or bowl-shaped earthwork, a form typical of Bronze Age barrow construction in the British landscape. Its preservation within the modern landscape provides evidence of prehistoric mortuary practices and settlement patterns in Somerset.
Bowl barrow 435m north west of Ivy Cottage is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020495. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 435m north west of Ivy Cottage is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020495.
Bowl barrow 435m north west of Ivy Cottage 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 1020495.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bishop's tithe barn (3 km), Bishop's palace (3.9 km), Fenny Castle Cross: a medieval wayside cross 20m north west of Castle Farm, Castle (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 435m north west of Ivy Cottage'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 435m north west of Ivy Cottage stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.