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Bowl barrow on Longstone Hill, 270 metres north east of Bicknoller Post is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Somerset. The barrow survives as a substantial earthwork comprising a mound with a characteristic bowl-shaped profile, typical of funerary monuments constructed during the Bronze Age period. Such barrows served as communal or individual burial sites and represent significant evidence of prehistoric settlement and ritual practice in the Quantock Hills region. The monument remains archaeologically important as a record of Bronze Age mortuary behaviour and territorial organisation in the Somerset landscape.
Bowl barrow on Longstone Hill, 270m north east of Bicknoller Post is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014130. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Longstone Hill, 270 metres north east of Bicknoller Post is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014130.
Bowl barrow on Longstone Hill, 270m north east of Bicknoller Post 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 1014130.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn 280m south of Triscombe Stone (5.9 km), Two cairns, 780m ESE of Triscombe Farm (6.1 km), Three round cairns on Wills Neck (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Longstone Hill, 270m north east of Bicknoller Post'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 Longstone Hill, 270m north east of Bicknoller Post stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.