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Bowl barrow east of Bunster Hill is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located in Staffordshire. The barrow survives as an earthen mound of substantial size, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the third and second millennia BC. Such monuments typically served as burial places for individuals of significance within prehistoric communities and often contained evidence of cremation or inhumation. The barrow's location in the landscape of the Peak District region reflects patterns of burial site placement common to upland areas during the Bronze Age period.
Bowl barrow east of Bunster Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008960. View the official record →
Bowl barrow east of Bunster Hill is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located in Staffordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008960.
Bowl barrow east of Bunster Hill 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 1008960.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Row Low bowl barrow (7.5 km), Bowl barrow 70m north-west of The Boxes (7.9 km), Tinker's Inn bowl barrow, north (7.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow east of Bunster Hill'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 east of Bunster Hill stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.