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Bowl barrow on Handy Cross Plain is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Hampshire, England. The barrow survives as a earthen mound of characteristic bowl-shaped form, a common burial type dating to the Bronze Age period. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often with associated grave goods, and served as focal points within Bronze Age burial landscapes. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under list entry 1013105, indicating its designation as a scheduled ancient monument of archaeological importance.
Bowl barrow on Handy Cross Plain is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013105. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Handy Cross Plain is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Hampshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013105.
Bowl barrow on Handy Cross Plain 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 1013105.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Church Moor, 700m north of Long Pond (4.5 km), Bell barrow 200m east of Slap Bottom (5.3 km), Bowl barrow 980m north-west of Wilverley Post (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Handy Cross Plain'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 Handy Cross Plain stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.