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Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street is a Bronze Age funerary monument forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down, Wiltshire. The barrow takes the form of a simple bowl-shaped mound, a burial type characteristic of the Bronze Age period. It belongs to a significant concentration of round barrows distributed across Avebury Down, reflecting the importance of this landscape for prehistoric burial practices. The monument survives as an earthwork and contributes to the archaeological and historical value of the wider Avebury ritual and funerary complex.
Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008107. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street is a Bronze Age funerary monument forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down, Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008107.
Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury 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 1008107.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork W of New Town Farm (6.4 km), Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse (6.7 km), Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage (6.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.