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Bowl barrow on Ashlet Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated approximately 800 metres west-south-west of Longmynd Hotel in Shropshire. The barrow survives as a bowl-shaped earthwork, characteristic of the Bronze Age burial tradition in the English midlands, dating to the second millennium before the Common Era. Such monuments typically enclosed cremated or inhumed remains, often accompanied by grave goods, and represent significant investments in commemoration by prehistoric communities. The site's survival on Ashlet Hill contributes to the archaeological record of Bronze Age settlement and ritual practice in the Long Mynd region of Shropshire.
Bowl barrow on Ashlet Hill, 800m WSW of Longmynd Hotel is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007700. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Ashlet Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated approximately 800 metres west-south-west of Longmynd Hotel in Shropshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007700.
Bowl barrow on Ashlet Hill, 800m WSW of Longmynd Hotel 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 1007700.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman road at Marshbrook (3.7 km), Roman villa 200yds (180m) N of Acton Scott Hall (3.9 km), Botley Stone, a ring cairn on Churchmoor Hill, 600m north-west of Churchmoor Farm. (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Ashlet Hill, 800m WSW of Longmynd Hotel'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 Ashlet Hill, 800m WSW of Longmynd Hotel stands on Unnamed Metasedimentary Rocks, Neoproterozoic, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and conglomerate.