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Bowl barrow and pill box 450m north west of Sheep Drift Farm is a scheduled ancient monument located in Suffolk, England, comprising a Bronze Age burial mound situated alongside a later military structure. The bowl barrow represents a common form of funerary monument dating from the Bronze Age, characterised by its distinctive rounded mound shape constructed over an inhumed or cremated burial. The pill box, a small concrete defensive structure, was added to the landscape during the Second World War as part of Britain's coastal and inland defence preparations. The juxtaposition of these two structures, separated by over three thousand years of history, illustrates the evolving use of the Suffolk landscape across different periods.
Bowl barrow and pill box 450m north west of Sheep Drift Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008730. View the official record →
Bowl barrow and pill box 450m north west of Sheep Drift Farm is a scheduled ancient monument located in Suffolk, England, comprising a Bronze Age burial mound situated alongside a later military structure.
Bowl barrow and pill box 450m north west of Sheep Drift Farm 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 1008730.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 900m south west of Redhouse Farm: part of a barrow cemetery on Levington Heath (4.1 km), Bowl barrow 980m south west of Redhouse Farm: part of a barrow cemetery on Levington Heath (4.1 km), Bowl barrow north of Hobbin's Belt, 900m south-east of White House Farm: part of Seven Hills barrow cemetery (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow and pill box 450m north west of Sheep Drift Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow and pill box 450m north west of Sheep Drift Farm stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.