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Bowl barrow at Newlands Corner is a Bronze Age burial mound located on the North Downs near Guildford in Surrey. The monument consists of a simple earthen mound of roughly circular form, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the Bronze Age, when such structures served as prominent markers for the burial of important individuals within their communities. The site occupies a prominent position within the downland landscape, which would have rendered it visually significant to prehistoric populations in the region. As a scheduled monument, it remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age burial practice and social organisation in Surrey.
Bowl barrow at Newlands Corner is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017719. View the official record →
Bowl barrow at Newlands Corner is a Bronze Age burial mound located on the North Downs near Guildford in Surrey. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017719.
Bowl barrow at Newlands Corner 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 1017719.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earth circles on St Martha's Hill (1.7 km), Chilworth gunpowder works (2.3 km), Bowl barrow 90m west of Tyting Farm (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow at Newlands Corner'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 Newlands Corner stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.