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Bowl barrow 500m north of East Water is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset, England. The barrow takes the form of a circular mound characteristic of bowl barrows, a common burial type across southern Britain during the Bronze Age period. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods that reflected the status of the deceased. This example survives as an earthwork feature within the Somerset landscape and remains a scheduled monument under national heritage protection.
Bowl barrow 500m north of East Water is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010637. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 500m north of East Water is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010637.
Bowl barrow 500m north of East Water 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 1010637.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Badger Hole, Wookey (3.5 km), Rhinoceros Hole, Wookey (3.6 km), Two bowl barrows 550m south west of Haydon House (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 500m north of East Water'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 500m north of East Water stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.