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Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, England. The site takes the form of a round burial mound characteristic of prehistoric barrow construction in southern Britain, a form that remained in use across both the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. Such monuments typically contained cremated or inhumed remains, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status of the deceased. The barrow survives as an archaeological feature of regional significance, contributing to the wider landscape of prehistoric burial practice in Wiltshire, an area particularly rich in such monuments.
Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016363. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016363.
Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages 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 1016363.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ogbourne Maizey Down round barrow (9.3 km), Bowl barrow 630m north east of Wick Bottom Barn (9.5 km), Bell barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation (9.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages'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 85m north east of Day House Cottages stands on West Walton Formation, Ampthill Clay Formation And Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Kimmeridgian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.