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Bowl barrow at Roskruge Beacon is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the moorland of Cornwall. The barrow takes the form of a circular earthwork mound, characteristic of bowl barrows from the second millennium BCE. It stands within a landscape of considerable archaeological importance, forming part of the broader distribution of Bronze Age funerary monuments across the Cornish peninsula. The site contributes to understanding of prehistoric burial practices and settlement patterns in the southwestern peninsula during the Bronze Age period.
Bowl barrow at Roskruge Beacon is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004630. View the official record →
Bowl barrow at Roskruge Beacon is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the moorland of Cornwall. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004630.
Bowl barrow at Roskruge Beacon 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 1004630.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Promontory fort at Chynalls Point (5.7 km), Bowl barrow 85m north west of Arrowan Vean (6.1 km), Bowl barrow 165m ESE of The Barrow (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow at Roskruge Beacon'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 Roskruge Beacon stands on Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is hornblende schist.