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Bowl Barrow northern edge of Westmere Strip, 586m south-west of Westmere Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Norfolk, England. The monument is a bowl barrow, the most common form of round barrow found in the English landscape, typically dating from the Bronze Age period when such funerary monuments were constructed across lowland Britain. The barrow survives as an earthwork feature in the landscape, representing the material expression of prehistoric burial practice and social organisation. As a scheduled ancient monument, it remains an important archaeological resource for understanding Bronze Age settlement and ceremonial practices in Norfolk.
Bowl Barrow northern edge of Westmere Strip, 586m south-west of Westmere Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1430742. View the official record →
Bowl Barrow northern edge of Westmere Strip, 586m south-west of Westmere Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Norfolk, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1430742.
Bowl Barrow northern edge of Westmere Strip, 586m south-west of Westmere 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 1430742.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow at Eagletower Plantation (2.5 km), Barrow group at Sturston, NE of Waterloo Farm (3 km), Ruins of St Lawrence's Church (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl Barrow northern edge of Westmere Strip, 586m south-west of Westmere 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 northern edge of Westmere Strip, 586m south-west of Westmere Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.