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Bowl barrow on Fox Hill

England
List entry 1007734
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1007734
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.11 hectares
Grid reference
TA 07601 61670
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow on Fox Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. The monument is a round barrow of typical bowl form, a common funerary monument type dating to the Bronze Age period. As a scheduled ancient monument, it represents an important example of prehistoric burial practice in the region and contributes to understanding the distribution and character of Bronze Age ceremonial landscapes in Yorkshire.

Bowl barrow on Fox Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007734. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow on Fox Hill?

Bowl barrow on Fox Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007734.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow on Fox Hill?

Bowl barrow on Fox 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 1007734.

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

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including St Martin's collegiate church and medieval standing cross, Lowthorpe (0.9 km), Medieval hall and settlement remains immediately west of St John's Church (1.5 km), Romano-British villa east of Sandy Lane, 800m north west of Harpham Grange (2.3 km).

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Overview
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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
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

St Martin's collegiate church and medieval standing cross, Lowthorpe
0.9 km
Medieval hall and settlement remains immediately west of St John's Church
1.5 km
Romano-British villa east of Sandy Lane, 800m north west of Harpham Grange
2.3 km
Nunnery Hill and adjacent earthworks, Little Kelk
2.5 km
Burton Agnes 12th-century manor house
3.1 km
Nether Hall moated site and fishpond
3.3 km
Medieval settlement of Pockthorpe at Pockthorpe Hall
4 km
Bowl barrow in Lady Boynton's Whin
4.8 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow on Fox Hill

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

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow on Fox Hill

Star CarrArchaeological site · ~14.5 miles
Domesday entry for Ruston, Yorkshire →
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