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Bowl barrow on The Walk is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Staffordshire. This burial mound takes the form of a simple dome or bowl-shaped earthwork characteristic of barrows constructed during the Bronze Age period. The monument survives as an upstanding earthwork and represents one of numerous barrow cemeteries distributed across the Staffordshire landscape, reflecting settlement and funerary practices of prehistoric communities in the region. As a scheduled ancient monument, it retains archaeological significance for understanding Bronze Age burial customs and the distribution of contemporary ritual sites in the English Midlands.
Bowl barrow on The Walk is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009043. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on The Walk is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Staffordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009043.
Bowl barrow on The Walk 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 1009043.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Marlpit Lane bowl barrow (3.7 km), Bunbury hillfort: a univallate hillfort south west of Alton Towers (4.1 km), Calwich Low bowl barrow (4.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on The Walk'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 Walk stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.