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Bowl barrow in Bowness Gardens 315m north west of the swimming lake is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Gloucestershire. The barrow takes the form of a low earthwork mound characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary structure built during the Bronze Age across southern Britain. The site is situated within Bowness Gardens, where it survives as an archaeological feature of local significance. Bowl barrows of this type typically contained burials and represent an important class of prehistoric funerary architecture, though specific details of this particular example's excavation history or internal structure are not widely documented in accessible scholarly sources.
Bowl barrow in Bowness Gardens 315m north west of the swimming lake is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005425. View the official record →
Bowl barrow in Bowness Gardens 315m north west of the swimming lake is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Gloucestershire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005425.
Bowl barrow in Bowness Gardens 315m north west of the swimming lake 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 1005425.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Vault in High Street (5 km), Bet tohorah at Jacob's Wells Road (5 km), Part of Bristol city wall 185m west of Bristol Bridge (5.1 km).
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Bowl barrow in Bowness Gardens 315m north west of the swimming lake stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.