Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 350m north of Springbottom Farm buildings on Wilsford Down

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History & significance

Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 350m north of Springbottom Farm buildings on Wilsford Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument consisting of a circular earthwork with a raised central mound and surrounding ditch. The barrow is one of several burial mounds that comprise a cemetery group on Wilsford Down, reflecting the intensive use of this chalk downland location for elite and communal burial during the Bronze Age period. The bowl barrow's simple hemispherical form is characteristic of funerary monuments constructed during the earlier Bronze Age, when such earthworks served as conspicuous markers of high-status individuals within their landscape. The monument remains visible as an upstanding earthwork on Wilsford Down, contributing to the archaeological significance of this zone of concentrated Bronze Age activity on Salisbury Plain.

Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 350m north of Springbottom Farm buildings on Wilsford Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010871. View the official record →

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