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Bowl barrow on the north side of Muckleburgh Hill

England

List entry 1013584

Nation

England

The designation

Reference

List entry 1013584

Authority

Historic England (NHLE)

Status

Scheduled Monument

Scheduled area

0.08 hectares

Grid reference

TG 10127 43124

Boundary

Scheduled area

Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow on the north side of Muckleburgh Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Norfolk, England. The barrow takes the form of a simple earthen mound with a bowl-shaped profile, a characteristic burial type of the Bronze Age period. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods, and served as focal points for ritual and commemoration within prehistoric communities. The barrow's survival on Muckleburgh Hill demonstrates the persistence of these archaeological features across the landscape despite millennia of agricultural and other land use in the Norfolk region.

Bowl barrow on the north side of Muckleburgh Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013584. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow on the north side of Muckleburgh Hill?

Bowl barrow on the north side of Muckleburgh Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Norfolk, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013584.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow on the north side of Muckleburgh Hill?

Bowl barrow on the north side of Muckleburgh Hill 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 1013584.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow on the north side of Muckleburgh Hill?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Kelling Heath, south of Holgate Hill (1.4 km), Bowl barrow in Hundred Acre Wood, 330m west of Cherry Trees Farm (2.2 km), Bowl barrow known as Three Farthing Hill: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath (2.6 km).

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Overview

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Monuments

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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

Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.

Literature

The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.

Legal

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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Bowl barrow on Kelling Heath, south of Holgate Hill

1.4 km

Bowl barrow in Hundred Acre Wood, 330m west of Cherry Trees Farm

2.2 km

Bowl barrow known as Three Farthing Hill: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath

2.6 km

Bowl barrow 260m NNW of Lowes Farm: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath

2.7 km

Oval barrow in Bodham Wood, 600m ESE of Warren Farm

2.7 km

Bowl barrow 450m north west of Lowes Farm: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath

3 km

Bowl barrow 400m east of Swan Lodge: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath

3.2 km

Oval barrow with superimposed bowl barrow known as Howe's Hill, 500m WSW of Wood Farm

3.9 km

The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow on the north side of Muckleburgh Hill

Bowl barrow on the north side of Muckleburgh Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

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