Bowl barrow in Taylors Wood, 270m north east of Swan Lodge: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath

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History & significance

Bowl barrow in Taylors Wood is a Bronze Age funerary monument located approximately 270 metres north east of Swan Lodge near Salthouse Heath in Norfolk. The barrow forms part of a larger cemetery of burial mounds distributed across and around Salthouse Heath, reflecting the intensive use of this landscape during the Bronze Age for ritual and mortuary purposes. The monument survives as a bowl-shaped earthwork, characteristic of the round barrow tradition of the second and early first millennia before the Common Era. As a scheduled ancient monument, it remains an important archaeological resource for understanding Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in Norfolk.

Bowl barrow in Taylors Wood, 270m north east of Swan Lodge: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013560. View the official record →

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