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Bowl barrow 450m southwest of Fernhill Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset. The site comprises a circular earthwork mound typical of bowl barrows, a common burial form across southern Britain during the Bronze Age, generally dating from around 2000 to 1500 BCE. Such monuments served as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status of the deceased. The barrow's survival to the present day, recorded in the National Heritage List for England, preserves evidence of prehistoric mortuary practice and the landscape use of this period.
Bowl barrow 450m southwest of Fernhill Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011523. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 450m southwest of Fernhill Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011523.
Bowl barrow 450m southwest of Fernhill 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 1011523.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bracelet Cave (6.9 km), Badger Hole, Wookey (7.3 km), Rhinoceros Hole, Wookey (7.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 450m southwest of Fernhill 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 southwest of Fernhill Farm stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.