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Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Cumberland, England. The site represents a typical example of the round barrow tradition characteristic of Bronze Age burial practice in northern England, constructed as an earthen mound to cover and commemorate a grave or graves. The barrow's form and archaeological context place it within the broader pattern of Bronze Age ceremonial and mortuary activity across the region. Such monuments are significant for understanding prehistoric settlement patterns, burial customs, and the ritual landscape of Bronze Age communities.
Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014584. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Cumberland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014584.
Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church 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 1014584.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church (0.1 km), Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church (0.4 km), Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions (2.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church'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 760m SSE of Old Church stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.