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Bowl barrow on Weaver Hills 550m south of Walk Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire. The monument consists of a circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary monument type erected during the Bronze Age across Britain. Such barrows 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 and scheduling as a heritage monument reflects its archaeological importance as evidence of Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in the Staffordshire landscape.
Bowl barrow on Weaver Hills 550m south of Walk Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009432. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Weaver Hills 550m south of Walk Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009432.
Bowl barrow on Weaver Hills 550m south of Walk Farm 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 1009432.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Marlpit Lane bowl barrow (3.9 km), Bunbury hillfort: a univallate hillfort south west of Alton Towers (4.2 km), Calwich Low bowl barrow (4.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Weaver Hills 550m south of Walk Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow on Weaver Hills 550m south of Walk Farm stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.