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Bowl barrow 620m north west of Highlands is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, England. The monument survives as a distinctive circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary form dating to the Bronze Age period. Such monuments typically comprised a central burial chamber or cremation deposit accompanied by grave goods, covered by an earthen mound. This particular example, recorded in the National Heritage List for England, contributes to the archaeological evidence of Bronze Age settlement and burial practices across Devon's landscape.
Bowl barrow 620m north west of Highlands is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017335. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 620m north west of Highlands is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017335.
Bowl barrow 620m north west of Highlands 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 1017335.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 170m west and 200m south west of Berry Down Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down (0.9 km), Three bowl barrows 470m south west of Berry Down Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down (1 km), Bowl barrow 470m south east of Smythen Cross, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Berry Down (1.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 620m north west of Highlands'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 620m north west of Highlands stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.