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Bowl barrow on Playford Heath, 625m south of Lux Farm is a prehistoric burial mound of Bronze Age date located in Suffolk. The monument takes the form of a circular earthwork with a bowl-shaped profile, a common barrow type of the Bronze Age period. It survives as an upstanding mound in the landscape and represents an important example of funerary monument type from the second millennium BC. The barrow forms part of the broader pattern of burial sites distributed across the Suffolk heathland region.
Bowl barrow on Playford Heath, 625m south of Lux Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007355. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Playford Heath, 625m south of Lux Farm is a prehistoric burial mound of Bronze Age date located in Suffolk. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007355.
Bowl barrow on Playford Heath, 625m south of Lux Farm 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 1007355.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Six bowl barrows in Knight's Wood, 500m south-east of White House Farm: part of Seven Hills barrow cemetery (4.9 km), Bowl barrow in Hobbin's Belt, 740m south-east of White House Farm: part of Seven Hills barrow cemetery (5 km), Bowl barrow north of Hobbin's Belt, 900m south-east of White House Farm: part of Seven Hills barrow cemetery (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Playford Heath, 625m south of Lux Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow on Playford Heath, 625m south of Lux Farm stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.