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Bowl barrow at Shirley Holms is a Bronze Age burial mound located near Little Purley Farm in Hampshire, England. The monument consists of a simple bowl-shaped earthwork, a form characteristic of Bronze Age funerary monuments in southern England dating to the second millennium BCE. The barrow survives as a rounded mound standing above the surrounding landscape, representing an important element of the Bronze Age ceremonial and burial landscape of the Hampshire region. As a scheduled ancient monument, it remains a significant archaeological record of prehistoric burial practice and settlement patterns in the area.
Bowl barrow at Shirley Holms, 660m east-north-east of Little Purley Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008812. View the official record →
Bowl barrow at Shirley Holms is a Bronze Age burial mound located near Little Purley Farm in Hampshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008812.
Bowl barrow at Shirley Holms, 660m east-north-east of Little Purley Farm 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 1008812.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow at Shirley Holms, 630m north-east of Little Purley Farm (0 km), Bowl barrow at Shirley Holms, 640m east-north-east of Little Purley Farm (0.1 km), Bell barrow at Shirley Holms, 710m east-north-east of Little Purley Farm (0.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow at Shirley Holms, 660m east-north-east of Little Purley Farm'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 Shirley Holms, 660m east-north-east of Little Purley Farm stands on Solent Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is clay, silt and sand.