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Bowl barrow 440m north of Banks Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Staffordshire. The barrow takes the form of a simple earthen mound with a circular plan, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the Bronze Age period. Such monuments served as burial places, typically containing inhumations or cremations accompanied by grave goods. The site's survival to the present day as an upstanding earthwork represents an important archaeological record of prehistoric funerary practice in the region.
Bowl barrow 440m north of Banks Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008968. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 440m north of Banks Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Staffordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008968.
Bowl barrow 440m north of Banks 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 1008968.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Marlpit Lane bowl barrow (2.2 km), Ellastone Bridge (3.2 km), Bunbury hillfort: a univallate hillfort south west of Alton Towers (3.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 440m north of Banks 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 440m north of Banks Farm stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.