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Bowl barrow on 'The Cop' hill is a Bronze Age burial mound situated on high ground in Buckinghamshire, approximately 270 metres north of Thickthorne Wood trigonometrical station. The monument takes the form of a simple hemispherical earthwork characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practices in southern England, typically constructed as a means of marking and containing inhumation or cremation burials. Such barrows represent important archaeological evidence for Bronze Age settlement patterns and mortuary ritual across the Chiltern region. The site remains a scheduled monument and retains archaeological potential despite any physical degradation that may have occurred since its original construction.
Bowl barrow on 'The Cop' hill, 270m north of Thickthorne Wood trig pillar is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009353. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on 'The Cop' hill is a Bronze Age burial mound situated on high ground in Buckinghamshire, approximately 270 metres north of Thickthorne Wood trigonometrical station. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009353.
Bowl barrow on 'The Cop' hill, 270m north of Thickthorne Wood trig pillar 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 1009353.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Village settlement site on Lodge Hill (2.5 km), Roman villa east of Lodge Hill Farm (3.2 km), Two bowl barrows 450m north west of Slough Glebe Farm, part of the Saunderton Lee barrow cemetery (3.8 km).
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