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Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield

England
List entry 1020074
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1020074
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.11 hectares
Grid reference
SX 45667 79631
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Devon, England. The monument consists of a bowl-shaped mound characteristic of burial practices during the Bronze Age period. It forms part of a larger barrow cemetery at Heathfield, indicating sustained ritual and mortuary activity across the landscape during prehistory. The site is scheduled as an ancient monument under national heritage protection, reflecting its archaeological significance as evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and ceremonial practices in Devon.

Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020074. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield?

Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020074.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield?

Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield 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 1020074.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Tavistock Abbey (5.8 km), Inscribed stones in vicarage garden (5.9 km), Green Lane Cross: a wayside cross at the north west end of Whitchurch Down (6.8 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
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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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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Legal
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Tavistock Abbey
5.8 km
Inscribed stones in vicarage garden
5.9 km
Green Lane Cross: a wayside cross at the north west end of Whitchurch Down
6.8 km
Early 20th century arsenic works at the Devon Great Consols Mine
7 km
Horse Bridge
7.4 km
Pixies' Cross: a wayside cross and associated earthwork enclosure on Whitchurch Down
7.5 km
Gunnislake Clitters copper, tin, arsenic and wolfram mine
8.5 km
Canal, lock, island and salmon keeping pond known collectively as the Tamar Canal
9 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield

Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield

Battle of Braddock Down (1643)Battle (1643) · ~20.3 milesBattle of Stratton 1643Battle (1643) · ~22.2 miles
Domesday entry for Lamerton, Devon →
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