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Bowl barrow and section of linear boundary earthwork on Winterbourne Stoke Down is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located on the chalk downland of Wiltshire, part of the dense concentration of barrows in the Stonehenge landscape. The site comprises a bowl barrow, a simple mound raised over a burial, together with an adjoining length of linear earthwork that may represent a territorial boundary or land division of prehistoric date. The bowl barrow form is characteristic of Bronze Age burial practice in southern England, though such monuments sometimes incorporate or respect earlier Neolithic features. The linear earthwork demonstrates the complexity of land use and management in prehistoric Wessex, indicating organised demarcation of space contemporary with or succeeding the principal barrow construction.
Bowl barrow and section of linear boundary earthwork on Winterbourne Stoke Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015023. View the official record →
Bowl barrow and section of linear boundary earthwork on Winterbourne Stoke Down is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located on the chalk downland of Wiltshire, part of the dense concentration of barrows in the Stonehenge landscape. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015023.
Bowl barrow and section of linear boundary earthwork on Winterbourne Stoke Down 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 1015023.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow SE of Cowdown Farm (5.9 km), Group of barrows W of Hooklands Plantation (6.5 km), Ancient cultivation terraces (6.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow and section of linear boundary earthwork on Winterbourne Stoke Down'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 section of linear boundary earthwork on Winterbourne Stoke Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.