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Bowl barrow in Guiting Wood is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Gloucestershire. The monument is a simple bowl-shaped barrow, a common burial form of the Bronze Age period, constructed as an earthen mound over an inhumed or cremated burial or burials. Located within Guiting Wood, the barrow survives as an upstanding archaeological feature that contributes to understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices in the Cotswolds region. The site is protected as a scheduled monument and represents the burial traditions of the Bronze Age communities that inhabited this area of the English Midlands.
Bowl barrow in Guiting Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013288. View the official record →
Bowl barrow in Guiting Wood is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Gloucestershire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013288.
Bowl barrow in Guiting Wood 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 1013288.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Syreford Farm bowl barrow, 450m south west of Oxpens (6.5 km), Round barrow W of Salperton Park (7 km), Salperton camp (7.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow in Guiting Wood'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 in Guiting Wood stands on Inferior Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.