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Bowl barrow on Hameldon Pasture is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Lancashire, England. The site comprises a circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common burial form of the Bronze Age period. The barrow survives as a prominent landscape feature on Hameldon Pasture, demonstrating the enduring physical presence of prehistoric mortuary practice in the region. Such monuments typically contained cremated or inhumed remains and may have been accompanied by grave goods, serving as focal points for ceremonial activity and territorial demarcation within Bronze Age communities.
Bowl barrow on Hameldon Pasture is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008918. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Hameldon Pasture is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Lancashire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008918.
Bowl barrow on Hameldon Pasture 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 1008918.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round cairn on Hameldon Pasture (0 km), Two Romano-British farmsteads known as Ring Stones (0.6 km), Ring cairn on Slipper Hill (0.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Hameldon Pasture'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 Hameldon Pasture stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.