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Bowl barrow on Milk Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire. The monument consists of a circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, the most common form of Bronze Age funerary monument in Britain, with a distinctive bowl-shaped profile formed by a central mound surrounded by a ditch. Such barrows typically date from the second millennium BC and served as focal points for burial and ceremonial activity within prehistoric communities. The site is recorded as a designated heritage monument reflecting its archaeological importance as evidence of Bronze Age mortuary practice and settlement patterns in the Midlands region.
Bowl barrow on Milk Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009404. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Milk Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009404.
Bowl barrow on Milk Hill 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 1009404.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 440m north of Banks Farm (4.8 km), Marlpit Lane bowl barrow (6.9 km), Calwich Low bowl barrow (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Milk Hill'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 Milk Hill stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.