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Bowl barrow and a disc barrow in Normanton Gorse is a scheduled monument forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery, a significant Bronze Age burial landscape situated on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. The cemetery comprises multiple barrows of varying types, including the bowl and disc forms, which date to the Bronze Age and represent the funerary practices of prehistoric communities in this region. The Normanton Down barrow group is notable for its concentration of well-preserved monuments and contributes substantially to understanding Bronze Age settlement patterns and burial customs across the Salisbury Plain landscape. These barrows, constructed as earthen mounds to mark elite and community burials, have been subject to archaeological investigation and form part of the protected heritage landscape surrounding the nearby Stonehenge monument.
Bowl barrow and a disc barrow in Normanton Gorse, forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009617. View the official record →
Bowl barrow and a disc barrow in Normanton Gorse is a scheduled monument forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery, a significant Bronze Age burial landscape situated on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009617.
Bowl barrow and a disc barrow in Normanton Gorse, forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery 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 1009617.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork W of Woodford Clump (5.8 km), Newton Barrow (6 km), Round barrow E of Downbarn West (7.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow and a disc barrow in Normanton Gorse, forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery'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 and a disc barrow in Normanton Gorse, forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.