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Bowl barrow immediately north west of Speedway Garage, 640m south of Ruffwell Hotel is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Devon. The monument is a bowl barrow, a common form of funerary monument characteristic of the Bronze Age period, which would have originally served as a burial place for elite individuals or community members. The barrow survives as an earthen mound and represents an important archaeological asset of the local Bronze Age landscape. Such monuments are typically dated to the second millennium BC and provide evidence of burial practices and social organisation during this period.
Bowl barrow immediately north west of Speedway Garage, 640m south of Ruffwell Hotel is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019289. View the official record →
Bowl barrow immediately north west of Speedway Garage, 640m south of Ruffwell Hotel is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019289.
Bowl barrow immediately north west of Speedway Garage, 640m south of Ruffwell Hotel 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 1019289.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman, Anglo Saxon and medieval defences called collectively Exeter City Walls (8.5 km), Bomb damaged remains of St Catherine's Almshouses and chapel and adjacent canon's house, 140m north of the Cathedral (8.6 km), Law Library, Cathedral Yard (8.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow immediately north west of Speedway Garage, 640m south of Ruffwell Hotel'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 immediately north west of Speedway Garage, 640m south of Ruffwell Hotel stands on Permian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.