Bowl barrow 680m SSE of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 680m SSE of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Porton Down in Wiltshire. The barrow forms part of a larger cemetery group of round barrows distributed across this chalk downland landscape, a characteristic pattern of burial activity spanning the second millennium BC. As a bowl barrow, the monument consists of a simple earthen mound without the elaborate ditch configurations of more complex barrow types, representing a widespread funerary tradition of the Bronze Age period. The site's location within the Porton Down archaeological landscape reflects the extensive use of these chalk uplands for ritual and burial purposes in prehistory.

Bowl barrow 680m SSE of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014091. View the official record →

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