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Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head Farm

England
List entry 1015224
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1015224
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.06 hectares
Grid reference
SU 08966 38144
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, England. The barrow survives as a burial mound of characteristic bowl form, typical of ritual and sepulchral monuments constructed during the Bronze Age period, roughly 2200 to 700 BC. Such mounds frequently contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status and beliefs of the communities that created them. The monument's survival on the Wiltshire landscape contributes to the archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary practice in southern England and represents part of the concentrated distribution of barrow monuments found across the chalk downlands of the region.

Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015224. View the official record →

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What is Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head Farm?

Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015224.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head Farm?

Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head 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 1015224.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head Farm?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ruined church of SS Mary and Nicholas (6.9 km), Barrow in Wilton Park (7.9 km), Churchyard cross (8.5 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Ruined church of SS Mary and Nicholas
6.9 km
Barrow in Wilton Park
7.9 km
Churchyard cross
8.5 km
Punch Bowl round barrow
8.9 km
Hoop Side round barrows
9.3 km
Hare Warren Control Station
9.4 km
Neale's Barrow, round barrow
9.4 km
City rampart E of Council House
9.7 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head Farm

Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow 540m south east of Druid's Head Farm

StonehengeArchaeological site · ~3.2 milesOld SarumArchaeological site · ~4.4 milesWest Kennet Long BarrowArchaeological site · ~18.1 milesSilbury HillArchaeological site · ~18.9 milesBattle of Roundway Down 1643Battle (1643) · ~17.5 miles
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