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Bowl barrow on The Hangs

England
List entry 1013563
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1013563
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.05 hectares
Grid reference
TG 06309 42710
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow on The Hangs is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Norfolk, England. The barrow takes the form of a distinctive bowl-shaped mound, a characteristic burial type of prehistoric communities in eastern England. Such monuments typically served as communal or individual burial places and represent important focal points in the ritual and ceremonial landscape of their periods. The site remains a significant archaeological record of Norfolk's prehistoric settlement and funerary practices.

Bowl barrow on The Hangs is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013563. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow on The Hangs?

Bowl barrow on The Hangs is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Norfolk, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013563.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow on The Hangs?

Bowl barrow on The Hangs 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 1013563.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow on The Hangs?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 400m east of Swan Lodge: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath (1.2 km), Bowl barrow 260m NNW of Lowes Farm: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath (1.6 km), Bowl barrow on Kelling Heath, south of Holgate Hill (4.1 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Bowl barrow 400m east of Swan Lodge: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath
1.2 km
Bowl barrow 260m NNW of Lowes Farm: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath
1.6 km
Bowl barrow on Kelling Heath, south of Holgate Hill
4.1 km
Heydon Hall, Saxlingham (near Holt)
4.7 km
Oval barrow in Bodham Wood, 600m ESE of Warren Farm
5.1 km
Bowl barrow in Hundred Acre Wood, 330m west of Cherry Trees Farm
5.3 km
Habitation site on Edgefield Heath
6.5 km
Cross in St Andrew's churchyard
6.7 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow on The Hangs

Bowl barrow on The Hangs stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

Domesday entry for Salthouse, Norfolk →
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