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Bowl barrow on Earl's Farm Down is a Bronze Age burial mound located within Boscombe Down Airfield in Wiltshire, England. The monument comprises a simple hemispherical earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, which were constructed during the Bronze Age as funerary monuments. It stands approximately 620 metres south west of the covered reservoir on the airfield and forms part of the significant Bronze Age barrow landscape that defines Boscombe Down. Like other barrows in the region, it represents evidence of ritual burial practices and social organisation during the Bronze Age period.
Bowl barrow on Earl's Farm Down within Boscombe Down Airfield, 620m south west of the covered reservoir is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015225. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Earl's Farm Down is a Bronze Age burial mound located within Boscombe Down Airfield in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015225.
Bowl barrow on Earl's Farm Down within Boscombe Down Airfield, 620m south west of the covered reservoir 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 1015225.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 50m west of the Battery Hill triangulation point (6.4 km), Long barrow 140m WSW of the Battery Hill triangulation point (6.4 km), Figsbury Ring (7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Earl's Farm Down within Boscombe Down Airfield, 620m south west of the covered reservoir'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 Earl's Farm Down within Boscombe Down Airfield, 620m south west of the covered reservoir stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.