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Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Shropshire. Situated approximately one hundred metres north-east of Boiling Well on the Long Mynd plateau, the barrow is a mound of earth and stone raised over a burial or burials, characteristic of Bronze Age burial practice in upland Britain. The monument survives as a substantial earthwork and represents the considerable importance placed on commemorating the dead during the Bronze Age period. As a scheduled monument of the National Heritage List for England, it remains a significant archaeological witness to prehistoric settlement and ritual practices in the Shropshire uplands.
Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd, 100m north-east of Boiling Well. is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007342. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Shropshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007342.
Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd, 100m north-east of Boiling Well. 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 1007342.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Botley Stone, a ring cairn on Churchmoor Hill, 600m north-west of Churchmoor Farm. (5.3 km), Roman road at Marshbrook (5.4 km), Bowl barrow on the southern end of The Long Mynd, 630m east of Myndtown. (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd, 100m north-east of Boiling Well.'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 The Long Mynd, 100m north-east of Boiling Well. stands on Unnamed Metasedimentary Rocks, Neoproterozoic, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and conglomerate.