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Bowl barrow at the east end of Magdalen Hill Down is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Hampshire, England. The monument takes the form of a simple bowl-shaped earthwork, characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice in southern England during the second millennium before the common era. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork on Magdalen Hill Down, contributing to the archaeological landscape of the region. Such bowl barrows typically contained inhumations or cremations of individuals of status, though detailed excavation records for this specific monument are not widely documented in accessible scholarly sources.
Bowl barrow at the east end of Magdalen Hill Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015984. View the official record →
Bowl barrow at the east end of Magdalen Hill Down is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Hampshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015984.
Bowl barrow at the east end of Magdalen Hill Down 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 1015984.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Long barrow 700m south-west of Longwood House (5 km), Twyford Roman villa (5.7 km), Park pale at Marwell, south-east of Cowleaze Copse (7.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow at the east end of Magdalen Hill Down'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 the east end of Magdalen Hill Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.