Bowl barrow and section of linear boundary earthwork on Winterbourne Stoke Down

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History & significance

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 →

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