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Bowl barrow in King's Wood, Wye, is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument consisting of a circular mound with a bowl-shaped profile, typical of burial mounds constructed in southern England during the prehistoric period. The barrow survives as an earthwork within King's Wood, preserving evidence of ritual and burial practices from the early prehistoric communities that inhabited the Wye area. As a protected monument on the National Heritage List for England, it represents an important element of Kent's archaeological heritage and contributes to understanding the distribution and development of barrow construction across the Southeast of England during the second and third millennia before the Common Era.
Bowl barrow in King's Wood, Wye is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009016. View the official record →
Bowl barrow in King's Wood, Wye, is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument consisting of a circular mound with a bowl-shaped profile, typical of burial mounds constructed in southern England during the prehistoric period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009016.
Bowl barrow in King's Wood, Wye 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 1009016.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Long Barrow SE of Jackets Field (1.2 km), Saucer Barrow in Warren Wood (4 km), The medieval college of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow in King's Wood, Wye'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 King's Wood, Wye stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.