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Bowl barrow and round cairn on Withypool Hill, 850m and 820m east of Portford Bridge, is a pair of Bronze Age funerary monuments located on Exmoor in Somerset. The site comprises two distinct structures: a bowl barrow and a round cairn, both characteristic monument types of the Bronze Age period, which would have functioned as burial or ceremonial mounds. These monuments form part of the broader landscape of prehistoric funerary activity on Exmoor, where such features are distributed across the moorland terrain. The site is listed on the National Heritage List for England and remains a significant archaeological record of Bronze Age burial practices in the southwest of England.
Bowl barrow and round cairn on Withypool Hill, 850m and 820m east of Portford Bridge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021262. View the official record →
Bowl barrow and round cairn on Withypool Hill, 850m and 820m east of Portford Bridge, is a pair of Bronze Age funerary monuments located on Exmoor in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021262.
Bowl barrow and round cairn on Withypool Hill, 850m and 820m east of Portford Bridge 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 1021262.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Old Barrow on Old Barrow Down (2 km), Tarr Steps (3.6 km), Two round barrows on Twitchen Ridge (4.2 km).
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