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Bowl barrow 70m northeast of King Down Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset. The barrow survives as a roughly circular earthwork mound, characteristic of the bowl barrow type that was constructed across southern Britain during the Bronze Age. Such monuments served as repositories for cremated or inhumed burials, often containing grave goods that reflected the status of the deceased. The site's survival and formal archaeological recording testifies to the importance of Bronze Age burial practices in the landscape of Somerset and the broader tradition of monumental barrow construction that defines much of this period.
Bowl barrow 70m northeast of King Down Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011531. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 70m northeast of King Down Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011531.
Bowl barrow 70m northeast of King Down Farm 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 1011531.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bracelet Cave (6 km), Duck decoy east of Barrow Wood Lane (6.5 km), Badger Hole, Wookey (6.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 70m northeast of King Down Farm'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 70m northeast of King Down Farm stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.