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Bowl barrow on Berril Down is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, England. The site comprises a roughly circular earthwork mound characteristic of bowl barrow design, a common burial form in southern Britain during the later prehistoric period. Such barrows typically contained inhumation burials, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status and beliefs of the interred individuals. The monument survives as a substantial earthwork on the downs and remains an important record of prehistoric burial practice and landscape use in the region.
Bowl barrow on Berril Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009589. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Berril Down is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009589.
Bowl barrow on Berril Down 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 1009589.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 300m north of White Farm (7.7 km), Round barrow 230yds (210m) NW of New Field Plantation (8.1 km), Long barrow 300m north-east of Albany Place (8.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Berril Down'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 Berril Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.