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Bowl barrow at Wigston Parva is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Leicestershire. The barrow represents a common burial practice of the Bronze Age period, when individual or small group interments were marked by earthen mounds of varying dimensions. As a designated heritage asset, the monument preserves evidence of prehistoric burial customs and settlement patterns in the East Midlands region. The site remains of archaeological significance for understanding Bronze Age funerary practices and the ceremonial landscape of ancient Leicestershire.
Bowl barrow at Wigston Parva is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010197. View the official record →
Bowl barrow at Wigston Parva is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Leicestershire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010197.
Bowl barrow at Wigston Parva 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 1010197.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Crop mark of a bowl barrow at Wigston Parva (0.3 km), High Cross 60m north west of Highcross House (0.8 km), Roman town at High Cross Also in WARWICKSHIRE (1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow at Wigston Parva'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 Wigston Parva stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.