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Bowl barrow 50m south of summit of Sponds Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Cheshire. The barrow survives as a roughly circular earthwork mound characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary monument type constructed during the Bronze Age across northern England. Such monuments typically contained inhumed or cremated remains, though archaeological investigation would be required to establish the specific burial practices associated with this example. The barrow's survival on Sponds Hill represents an important archaeological asset documenting Bronze Age settlement and mortuary practices in the Cheshire landscape.
Bowl barrow 50m south of summit of Sponds Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007395. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 50m south of summit of Sponds Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Cheshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007395.
Bowl barrow 50m south of summit of Sponds Hill 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 1007395.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 100m west of Black Rock Farm (3.8 km), Bowl barrow 160m south of Blue Boar Farm (3.9 km), Standing stone at Ginclough 400m WSW of Gin Clough Farm (4.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 50m south of summit of Sponds Hill'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 50m south of summit of Sponds Hill stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.