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Bowl barrow on Thorncombe Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located approximately 500 metres north west of Halsway Post in Somerset. The monument comprises a roughly circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary form across southern Britain during the third and second millennia before the present. The barrow survives as an upstanding mound with distinctive bowl-shaped form, representing a significant archaeological feature of the prehistoric landscape. Such monuments typically functioned as communal or individual burial sites and provide material evidence for settlement patterns and ritual practices in prehistoric Somerset.
Bowl barrow on Thorncombe Hill 500m north west of Halsway Post is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015208. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Thorncombe Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located approximately 500 metres north west of Halsway Post in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015208.
Bowl barrow on Thorncombe Hill 500m north west of Halsway Post 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 1015208.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn 280m south of Triscombe Stone (4.3 km), Two cairns, 780m ESE of Triscombe Farm (4.4 km), Three round cairns on Wills Neck (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Thorncombe Hill 500m north west of Halsway Post'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 Thorncombe Hill 500m north west of Halsway Post stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.