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Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down, is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in the chalk downland of Wiltshire. The barrow takes the form of a simple hemispherical mound, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the Early to Middle Bronze Age, typically between 2200 and 1500 BCE. The monument lies within the extensive barrow cemetery landscape that characterises the Avebury region, an area of considerable archaeological significance containing numerous Bronze Age burial mounds. As a listed monument, it remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric burial practice and settlement patterns in the Neolithic and Bronze Age chalk downlands of southern England.
Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008108. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down, is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in the chalk downland of Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008108.
Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down 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 1008108.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork W of New Town Farm (7.5 km), Group of barrows on Draycott Hill (7.7 km), Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage (7.8 km).
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