Scheduled MonumentsEnglandBowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow

Bowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow

England
List entry 1004362
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1004362
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.07 hectares
Grid reference
SX3122099915
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Cornwall, England. The site is recorded as a bowl barrow, the most common form of burial mound from the Bronze Age, typically comprising a single central burial pit surrounded by an earthen mound. Such monuments are characteristic of the early to middle Bronze Age period, roughly 2500 to 1500 BC, when inhumation burial practices were prevalent across southern Britain. The barrow's survival to the present day, despite subsequent land use and agricultural activity, reflects its significance as one of many such monuments that characterise the prehistoric landscape of Cornwall and the wider Southwest peninsula.

Bowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004362. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow?

Bowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Cornwall, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004362.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow?

Bowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow 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 1004362.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Affaland Moor 780m north west of Forda Mill (0.8 km), Round barrow cemetery 240m north east of Lower Trebarrow (3.8 km), St Anne's Well, in Whitstone churchyard (5.1 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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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow

Bowl barrow 70m east of Beechwood Bungalow stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.