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Bowl barrow forming part of Normanton Down round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial mound situated on Normanton Down near Woodhenge in Wiltshire. The monument consists of a simple bowl-shaped mound characteristic of early Bronze Age funerary practice, dating to approximately 2000–1500 BCE. It forms part of one of the most significant concentrations of round barrows in southern England, with Normanton Down containing multiple burial mounds that demonstrate the ritual and burial practices of Bronze Age communities in the Wessex region. The barrow cemetery represents an important landscape of the dead, with individual monuments distributed across the downland in a pattern reflecting the social and territorial organisation of prehistoric Wiltshire society.
Bowl barrow forming part of Normanton Down round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010330. View the official record →
Bowl barrow forming part of Normanton Down round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial mound situated on Normanton Down near Woodhenge in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010330.
Bowl barrow forming part of Normanton Down round barrow cemetery 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 1010330.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newton Barrow (6 km), Group of barrows on North Hill Down (7.7 km), 'Ende Burgh' long barrow (7.9 km).
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Bowl barrow forming part of Normanton Down round barrow cemetery stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.