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Bowl barrow in Normanton Gorse is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. The monument is a typical bowl barrow, characterised by its simple hemispherical mound form with no surrounding ditch, representing a widespread funerary tradition of the Early to Middle Bronze Age. As one of several barrows clustered at Normanton Down, it contributes to one of Wessex's most significant concentrations of round barrows, which collectively demonstrate the intensive use of this landscape for burial practices during the Bronze Age. The barrow group's proximity to Stonehenge and their density reflect the importance of the Stonehenge environs as a ceremonial and burial landscape during the second millennium before the present era.
Bowl barrow in Normanton Gorse, forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009626. View the official record →
Bowl barrow in Normanton Gorse is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009626.
Bowl barrow in Normanton Gorse, forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery 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 1009626.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork W of Woodford Clump (5.6 km), Newton Barrow (5.9 km), Group of barrows on North Hill Down (8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow in Normanton Gorse, forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery'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 Normanton Gorse, forming part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.