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Bowl barrow on Arbour Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire. The monument takes the form of a simple hemispherical or bowl-shaped earthwork, a characteristic form of funerary monument common throughout Britain during the Bronze Age period. The barrow survives as a significant archaeological feature within the Staffordshire landscape, representing evidence of Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in the region. Such monuments typically contained inhumed or cremated remains, often accompanied by grave goods, though the specific contents of this particular barrow are not well documented in the readily available scholarly record.
Bowl barrow on Arbour Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010128. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Arbour Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010128.
Bowl barrow on Arbour Hill 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 1010128.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Weaver Hills 600m south of Weaver Farm (5.9 km), Bowl barrow 440m north of Banks Farm (7.1 km), Mayfield strip lynchets (7.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Arbour Hill'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 on Arbour Hill stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.