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Bowl barrow 450m east of Bristol Plain Farm is a prehistoric burial mound located in Somerset, England. The monument dates to the Bronze Age and represents a common funerary monument type characteristic of the second millennium BC in this region. Bowl barrows are simple, circular mounds of earth and stone raised over cremated or inhumed burials, and this example survives as an upstanding earthwork that preserves evidence of Bronze Age mortuary practices. The barrow's location on the Somerset landscape reflects the distribution of contemporary burial sites across the county during the Bronze Age period.
Bowl barrow 450m east of Bristol Plain Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010481. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 450m east of Bristol Plain Farm is a prehistoric burial mound located in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010481.
Bowl barrow 450m east of Bristol Plain 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 1010481.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Badger Hole, Wookey (4.8 km), Rhinoceros Hole, Wookey (4.8 km), Early Christian settlement and monastic site at Marchey Farm (6.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 450m east of Bristol Plain 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 450m east of Bristol Plain Farm stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.