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Bowl barrow in Lancaster Drive, Martlesham Heath is a Bronze Age funerary monument consisting of a circular earthwork mound. The site is situated within the parish of Martlesham in Suffolk and represents a common form of elite burial practice during the Bronze Age period. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork, though its precise dimensions and condition have been subject to later disturbance and modern development pressures in this area of eastern England. Such monuments typically contained inhumations or cremations accompanied by grave goods, though archaeological investigation at this specific location would be required to establish the full extent of surviving archaeology beneath the mound.
Bowl barrow in Lancaster Drive, Martlesham Heath is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008732. View the official record →
Bowl barrow in Lancaster Drive, Martlesham Heath is a Bronze Age funerary monument consisting of a circular earthwork mound. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008732.
Bowl barrow in Lancaster Drive, Martlesham Heath 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 1008732.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow north of Hobbin's Belt, 900m south-east of White House Farm: part of Seven Hills barrow cemetery (3.9 km), Two bowl barrows in Hobbin's Belt, 820m south-east of White House Farm: part of Seven Hills barrow cemetery (3.9 km), Bowl barrow 900m south west of Redhouse Farm: part of a barrow cemetery on Levington Heath (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow in Lancaster Drive, Martlesham Heath'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 Lancaster Drive, Martlesham Heath stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.