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Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery known as the New King Barrows is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, England. The barrow is a simple bowl-shaped mound, characteristic of the Bronze Age burial tradition in southern Britain, and forms part of a cemetery group that reflects the ritual and settlement patterns of the early Bronze Age period. The New King Barrows cemetery demonstrates the clustering of burial monuments typical of Bronze Age communal burial grounds, with individual barrows representing distinct interment episodes. The site's designation within the Scheduled Monument system reflects its archaeological importance in understanding Bronze Age funerary practices and landscape organisation across Wiltshire's chalk downlands.
Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery known as the New King Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012420. View the official record →
Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery known as the New King Barrows is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012420.
Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery known as the New King Barrows 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 1012420.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newton Barrow (7.2 km), A pond barrow and a bowl barrow 200m south east of St Mary's Church forming outliers to a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Gunner (8.3 km), 'Ende Burgh' long barrow (8.3 km).
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