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Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill

England
List entry 1013936
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1013936
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.02 hectares
Grid reference
SP 86131 07093
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Buckinghamshire. The monument consists of a circular earthwork characteristic of the bowl barrow form, a common funerary structure of the Bronze Age period. Like other examples of its type, it would have originally contained a burial deposit, though the specific details of any interment remain unrecorded. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork and forms part of the Bronze Age landscape archaeology of the Chiltern region.

Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013936. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill?

Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Buckinghamshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013936.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill?

Bowl barrow on Bacombe 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 1013936.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site in Chalkdell Wood, 100m north west of Frith Hill House (7 km), Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1.02km long section from west of White House Farm to Lily Bank Farm (7 km), Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 176m long section south west of White House Farm (7.5 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
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Literature
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Moated site in Chalkdell Wood, 100m north west of Frith Hill House
7 km
Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1.02km long section from west of White House Farm to Lily Bank Farm
7 km
Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 176m long section south west of White House Farm
7.5 km
The Castle, a moated site at Oaken Corner in Wendover Woods
8.2 km
Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1.13km long section from Grymsdyke Manor to RAF High Wycombe
8.5 km
Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 660m long section to the west of Walter's Ash
9.4 km
Earthworks in Park Wood
9.6 km
Two bowl barrows 450m north west of Slough Glebe Farm, part of the Saunderton Lee barrow cemetery
9.9 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill

Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill

St AlbansRoman town · ~16.9 milesDorchester-on-ThamesRoman town · ~19.3 milesAlchesterRoman town · ~19.7 milesBattle of Chalgrove 1643Battle (1643) · ~14.4 miles
Domesday entry for Wendover, Buckinghamshire →
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