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Bowl barrow 540m east of Mink Patches is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Norfolk, England. The monument consists of a simple hemispherical earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common burial form of the Bronze Age period. Such barrows typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods, though the specific contents of this particular example are not well established in the available record. The site is recorded on the Norfolk Heritage List and represents one of many Bronze Age funerary monuments scattered across the Norfolk landscape, contributing to our understanding of prehistoric settlement and burial practices in East Anglia.
Bowl barrow 540m east of Mink Patches is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013098. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 540m east of Mink Patches is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Norfolk, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013098.
Bowl barrow 540m east of Mink Patches 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 1013098.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including West Acre Priory, and square barrow within the precinct (4.6 km), Castle Acre Castle, town defences and Bailey Gate (5 km), Castle Acre Priory (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 540m east of Mink Patches'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 540m east of Mink Patches stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.