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Bowl barrow 780m ESE of the fire tower on Monkham Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Somerset, England. The monument is designated as a scheduled ancient monument and represents a common funerary practice of the Bronze Age period, when such earthen mounds were constructed to mark the burial places of significant individuals or community members. The barrow survives as a distinctive circular mound, characteristic of the bowl barrow type, which typically comprises a simple raised earthwork without an external ditch or complex internal structures. Its survival on Monkham Hill contributes to the archaeological record of Bronze Age settlement and burial practices in the Somerset landscape.
Bowl barrow 780m ESE of the fire tower on Monkham Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021231. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 780m ESE of the fire tower on Monkham Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021231.
Bowl barrow 780m ESE of the fire tower on Monkham Hill 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 1021231.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Burrow Farm iron mine and section of mineral railway trackbed, 350m north east of Burrow Farm (4.8 km), Bowl barrow 700m north east of Burrow Farm (4.8 km), Bowl barrow 470m north of Brendon Hill Farm (5.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 780m ESE of the fire tower on Monkham Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 780m ESE of the fire tower on Monkham Hill stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.