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Bowl barrow on Culver Down is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the Isle of Wight, Hampshire. The barrow survives as a substantial earthwork mound with a characteristic bowl-shaped profile, typical of funerary structures built during the second millennium BC. The site forms part of a wider Bronze Age landscape on Culver Down, which contains multiple burial monuments reflecting the ritual and settlement patterns of prehistoric communities in this region. As a scheduled monument and entry on the National Heritage List for England, the barrow represents an important archaeological resource for understanding Bronze Age burial practices and the use of prominent downland locations for ceremonial purposes.
Bowl barrow on Culver Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012716. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Culver Down is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the Isle of Wight, Hampshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012716.
Bowl barrow on Culver 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 1012716.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bembridge Fort (1.3 km), Steyne Wood Battery (1.4 km), Yaverland Battery, 660m south of Yaverland Church (2.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Culver 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 Culver Down stands on Lambeth Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.