Bowl barrow 90m north-west of the footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley Common

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 90m north-west of the footbridge is a Bronze Age burial mound located on Shelley Common in Essex. This round barrow forms part of a group of three such monuments on the common, representing the funerary practices of early Bronze Age communities in the region. The barrow is of the bowl type, a characteristic form consisting of a simple mounded earthwork constructed over a central burial. Like other Bronze Age barrows in Essex, it testifies to the ritual and social importance attached to elevated burial monuments during the second millennium BC.

Bowl barrow 90m north-west of the footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009243. View the official record →

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