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Bowl barrow on Stock Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Stock Hill round barrow cemetery in Somerset. The monument is a bowl barrow, the most common type of round barrow, characterised by a dome-shaped mound of earth and stone raised over a central burial. As a component of a barrow cemetery, it represents the clustered burial practices typical of Bronze Age communities in the region, indicating sustained ritual and funerary activity at the location across generations. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under list entry 1014239.
Bowl barrow on Stock Hill: part of the Stock Hill round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014239. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Stock Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Stock Hill round barrow cemetery in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014239.
Bowl barrow on Stock Hill: part of the Stock Hill round barrow cemetery 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 1014239.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 550m south west of Haydon House (3.7 km), Rhinoceros Hole, Wookey (3.9 km), Browne's Gate (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Stock Hill: part of the Stock Hill round barrow cemetery'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 Stock Hill: part of the Stock Hill round barrow cemetery stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.