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Bowl barrow on King's Play Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, situated approximately 420 metres north of Hill Cottage. The barrow takes the form of a simple mound with a circular plan, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the Bronze Age period. Bowl barrows of this type served as burial monuments and represent a significant category of funerary architecture from the second millennium BC. The survival of this earthwork, recorded in the national heritage list, attests to the archaeological importance of the Wiltshire landscape in understanding Bronze Age funerary practices and settlement patterns.
Bowl barrow on King's Play Hill, 420m north of Hill Cottage is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013361. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on King's Play Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, situated approximately 420 metres north of Hill Cottage. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013361.
Bowl barrow on King's Play Hill, 420m north of Hill Cottage 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 1013361.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Oliver's Camp and two round barrows outside Oliver's Camp (1.6 km), Bowl barrow 60m east of Roundway Hill Covert (1.9 km), Roundway Hill Farm round barrows (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on King's Play Hill, 420m north of Hill Cottage's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow on King's Play Hill, 420m north of Hill Cottage stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.