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Bowl barrow in Tunstall Forest is a Bronze Age burial mound located approximately 1300 metres south of Heath Cottages in Suffolk. The monument survives as a roughly circular earthwork of modest proportions, characteristic of the bowl barrow form that emerged during the Bronze Age. Such barrows served as burial monuments for elite or significant members of prehistoric communities, and this example contributes to the known distribution of funerary monuments across the Suffolk landscape. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under designation number 1011438.
Bowl barrow in Tunstall Forest, 1300m south of Heath Cottages is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011438. View the official record →
Bowl barrow in Tunstall Forest is a Bronze Age burial mound located approximately 1300 metres south of Heath Cottages in Suffolk. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011438.
Bowl barrow in Tunstall Forest, 1300m south of Heath Cottages 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 1011438.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow in Tunstall Forest, 900m west of Blacklands Farm (1.1 km), Bowl barrow on Iken Heath, 620m north of Fazeboons (1.8 km), Cumberland's Mount medieval earthwork in Staverton Park (4.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow in Tunstall Forest, 1300m south of Heath Cottages'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 Tunstall Forest, 1300m south of Heath Cottages stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.