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Bowl barrow near Gallows Plain is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Hertfordshire. The monument consists of a roughly circular earthwork with a bowl-shaped form, typical of barrow construction from the Bronze Age period. Such structures served as communal or elite burial monuments and represent an important category of prehistoric funerary architecture in southern England. The barrow survives as a landscape feature that contributes to understanding Bronze Age settlement and burial practices in the county.
Bowl barrow near Gallows Plain is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010757. View the official record →
Bowl barrow near Gallows Plain is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Hertfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010757.
Bowl barrow near Gallows Plain 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 1010757.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Iron Age cemetery, Trinity Road, Hertford Heath (1.8 km), Rye House moated enclosure and gatehouse (5 km), Hoddesdon Park Wood moated site, Hoddesdon (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow near Gallows Plain'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 near Gallows Plain stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.