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Bowl barrow 450m north of Cross Droves is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Berkshire, England. The monument consists of a simple earthen mound of circular plan, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the later prehistoric period as communal or individual burial places. Such barrows typically contained inhumations and occasionally cremations, serving as enduring markers of settlement territories and ancestral significance. The site's survival into the modern period, despite agricultural use of the surrounding landscape, demonstrates the prominence these monuments held within their original archaeological contexts.
Bowl barrow 450m north of Cross Droves is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012274. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 450m north of Cross Droves is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Berkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012274.
Bowl barrow 450m north of Cross Droves 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 1012274.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Scotspoor barrow (5.2 km), Bowl barrow 200m east of Oxhanger Wood (5.9 km), Berisbury camp near Hampshire Gate (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 450m north of Cross Droves'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 north of Cross Droves stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.