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Bowl barrow in Long Plantation, 610m NE of Starved Oak Cross

England
List entry 1010636
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1010636
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.08 hectares
Grid reference
SX 91762 99170
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow in Long Plantation is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Devon, approximately 610 metres north-east of Starved Oak Cross. The monument consists of a circular earthwork typical of bowl barrow construction, a common funerary monument form dating to the Bronze Age period. Such barrows served as burial monuments for individuals of status within prehistoric communities and are significant archaeological features indicating patterns of settlement and social organization during the second millennium before Christ. The site's survival as an earthwork demonstrates the enduring landscape archaeology of Devonshire's upland regions.

Bowl barrow in Long Plantation, 610m NE of Starved Oak Cross is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010636. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow in Long Plantation, 610m NE of Starved Oak Cross?

Bowl barrow in Long Plantation is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Devon, approximately 610 metres north-east of Starved Oak Cross. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010636.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow in Long Plantation, 610m NE of Starved Oak Cross?

Bowl barrow in Long Plantation, 610m NE of Starved Oak Cross 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 1010636.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow in Long Plantation, 610m NE of Starved Oak Cross?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Part of the Roman town of Exeter, beneath Cathedral Green (6.6 km), Hall of the Vicars Choral, South Street (6.7 km), Roman baths (site of), The Deanery (6.7 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
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
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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Legal
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Part of the Roman town of Exeter, beneath Cathedral Green
6.6 km
Hall of the Vicars Choral, South Street
6.7 km
Roman baths (site of), The Deanery
6.7 km
St Nicholas' Priory
6.7 km
The medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund's Church, and medieval tenement remains, lying between the River Exe and Frog Street
7 km
Medieval bridge and part of a late medieval conduit under Holloway Street
7.2 km
St Loye's Chapel and cross, Rifford Road
7.8 km
Little John's Cross
8 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow in Long Plantation, 610m NE of Starved Oak Cross

Bowl barrow in Long Plantation, 610m NE of Starved Oak Cross stands on Permian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow in Long Plantation, 610m NE of Starved Oak Cross

ExeterRoman town · ~4.1 miles
Domesday entry for Bramford, Devon →
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