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Bowl barrow in Rendlesham Forest is a Bronze Age funerary monument located approximately 1300 metres west of Valley Farm in Suffolk. The barrow survives as a substantial earthwork mound characteristic of the bowl barrow type, which represents one of the most common forms of burial mound constructed during the Bronze Age period across southern England. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials accompanied by grave goods, reflecting the ritual and social practices of Bronze Age communities. The site's survival within Rendlesham Forest demonstrates the importance of woodland areas in preserving archaeological features that might otherwise have been destroyed by intensive agricultural activity.
Bowl barrow in Rendlesham Forest, 1300m west of Valley Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008697. View the official record →
Bowl barrow in Rendlesham Forest is a Bronze Age funerary monument located approximately 1300 metres west of Valley Farm in Suffolk. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008697.
Bowl barrow in Rendlesham Forest, 1300m west of Valley Farm 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 1008697.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow and adjacent section of a boundary bank in Rendlesham Forest, 1400m west of Valley Farm (0.2 km), Two bowl barrows in Rendlesham Forest, 285m north west of Manor Cottage (1.1 km), Settlement sites 330yds (300m) NW of Walnut Tree Farm (2.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow in Rendlesham Forest, 1300m west of Valley Farm'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 Rendlesham Forest, 1300m west of Valley Farm stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.