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Bowl barrow at Cross Ways, Thorney Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Hampshire, England. The barrow takes the form of a simple earthen mound characteristic of early Bronze Age funerary practice, typically constructed over a central burial deposit. Sites of this type, found across southern England, represent a significant period of organised ceremonial burial spanning roughly the second millennium before the Common Era. The monument's survival as an earthwork testament to prehistoric funerary customs and settlement patterns in the New Forest region.
Bowl barrow at Cross Ways, Thorney Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012910. View the official record →
Bowl barrow at Cross Ways, Thorney Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Hampshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012910.
Bowl barrow at Cross Ways, Thorney Hill 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 1012910.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 75m north of All Saints Church, Thorney Hill (0.4 km), Staple Cross (6.8 km), St Catherine's Hill camp and round barrows (7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow at Cross Ways, Thorney Hill'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 at Cross Ways, Thorney Hill stands on Solent Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is clay, silt and sand.