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Bowl barrow on Blaxhall Common is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Suffolk, England. The barrow is a simple domed earthwork of the type characteristic of the Early Bronze Age, when such monuments served as ceremonial burial places for individuals of status within prehistoric communities. The site represents an important element of the Bronze Age funerary landscape of East Anglia and contributes to understanding settlement and burial practices in the region during the second millennium BCE. As a scheduled monument, it remains a significant archaeological feature of the Suffolk heathland environment.
Bowl barrow on Blaxhall Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008485. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Blaxhall Common is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Suffolk, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008485.
Bowl barrow on Blaxhall Common 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 1008485.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow in Tunstall Forest, 950m north west of Heath Cottages (1.6 km), Bowl barrow on Iken Heath, 620m north of Fazeboons (3.3 km), Bowl barrow in Tunstall Forest, 1300m south of Heath Cottages (3.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Blaxhall Common'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 Blaxhall Common stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.