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Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park

England

List entry 1004496

Nation

England

The designation

Reference

List entry 1004496

Authority

Historic England (NHLE)

Status

Scheduled Monument

Scheduled area

0.12 hectares

Grid reference

SX 44962 52688

Boundary

Scheduled area

Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park is a prehistoric burial mound of Bronze Age date. The monument takes the form of a circular earthwork characteristic of barrow construction from this period, situated within the designed landscape of Mount Edgcumbe Park near Cremyll in Cornwall. Like other bowl barrows of the Bronze Age, it would have served as a funerary monument for individuals of status within contemporary society. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains of archaeological interest as evidence of prehistoric settlement and burial practice in the region.

Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004496. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park?

Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park is a prehistoric burial mound of Bronze Age date. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004496.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park?

Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park 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 1004496.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery (1.9 km), Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3 (2 km), Cawsand Fort (2.8 km).

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Monuments

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Battlefields

The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.

Roman Britain

The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.

Domesday

The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.

Civil War

The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.

Geology

The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.

LiDAR

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Local Names

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Historical Maps

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Literature

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Legal

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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery

1.9 km

Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3

Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block

3.3 km

Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury

The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park

Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park

Battle of Braddock Down (1643)Battle (1643) · ~18.2 miles

Domesday entry for Maker, Devon →

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