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Bowl barrow on Backley Plain is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Hampshire. The monument consists of a simple domed earthwork, characteristic of bowl barrows from the second millennium BCE. Such barrows typically contained cremated or inhumed remains and often formed part of larger cemetery complexes. The site represents an important record of Bronze Age funerary practice and settlement patterns in the Hampshire landscape.
Bowl barrow on Backley Plain is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009029. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Backley Plain is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Hampshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009029.
Bowl barrow on Backley 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 1009029.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Church Moor, 700m north of Long Pond (4.2 km), Bowl barrow 980m north-west of Wilverley Post (4.7 km), Bell barrow 900m north-west of Wilverley Post (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Backley 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 on Backley Plain stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.