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Bowl barrow 90m east of Twist Castle is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Lancashire. The barrow takes the form of a circular earthwork mound characteristic of Bronze Age burial practice in northern England, constructed to mark the grave of an individual of status within contemporary society. Its proximity to Twist Castle, a later medieval fortified structure, indicates the persistence of this location as a place of significance across multiple historical periods. The monument survives as a visible archaeological feature within the landscape, contributing to the understanding of Bronze Age settlement and burial patterns in the region.
Bowl barrow 90m east of Twist Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009113. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 90m east of Twist Castle is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Lancashire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009113.
Bowl barrow 90m east of Twist Castle 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 1009113.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Twist Castle Romano-British farmstead (0.1 km), Two Romano-British farmsteads known as Ring Stones (0.8 km), Ring cairn on Slipper Hill (1.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 90m east of Twist Castle'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 90m east of Twist Castle stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.