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Bowl barrow immediately south of Long Meadow Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Northamptonshire. The monument comprises a distinctive bowl-shaped earthwork characteristic of prehistoric funerary practice in the English Midlands, where such barrows served as communal or individual burial sites. The barrow's preservation reflects the typical morphology of smaller mounds from this period, which were commonly constructed as rounded elevations of earth and stone to mark and contain burials. As a scheduled ancient monument, it remains an important archaeological resource for understanding prehistoric settlement and mortuary practices in the region.
Bowl barrow immediately south of Long Meadow Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021315. View the official record →
Bowl barrow immediately south of Long Meadow Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Northamptonshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021315.
Bowl barrow immediately south of Long Meadow Farm 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 1021315.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Peterborough Cathedral Precincts, including Table Hall and Infirmary Arcade (8 km), Longthorpe village cross (8.1 km), Longthorpe Tower: part of a medieval fortified house 90m west of St Botolph's Church (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow immediately south of Long Meadow Farm'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 south of Long Meadow Farm stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.