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Bowl barrow on Lype Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located on elevated ground near Heath Pault Cross in Somerset. The barrow survives as a roughly circular earthwork mound, characteristic of the bowl barrow form which represents one of the most common burial mound types across southern Britain. Such monuments typically date from the Bronze Age, though some may be earlier, and functioned as communal or individual burial sites for prehistoric communities. The site's survival and official designation reflect its archaeological importance as a record of early mortuary practice and landscape use in the Bronze Age period.
Bowl barrow on Lype Hill, 750m ENE of Heath Pault Cross is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021063. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Lype Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located on elevated ground near Heath Pault Cross in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021063.
Bowl barrow on Lype Hill, 750m ENE of Heath Pault Cross 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 1021063.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cross in the churchyard of St Peter's Church (4 km), Lock up 60m south-east of the Church of St Mary (5.6 km), Four round barrows on The Allotment, 520m south east of Spire Cross (6.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Lype Hill, 750m ENE of Heath Pault Cross'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 Lype Hill, 750m ENE of Heath Pault Cross stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.