Bowl barrow 530m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 530m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Porton Down in Wiltshire. The barrow is part of a dispersed cemetery of round barrows characteristic of the second millennium before Christ, when such earthen mounds served as communal or family burial places across the Wessex chalklands. The monument survives as a low earthwork typical of bowl barrows, which are among the simplest and most common forms of Bronze Age funerary monument. It forms part of the significant archaeological landscape of Porton Down, an area containing numerous round barrows that testify to sustained settlement and burial practices during the Bronze Age.

Bowl barrow 530m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014092. View the official record →

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