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Bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located on Beacon Hill or Bulford Down in Wiltshire, England. It forms part of a dispersed group of barrows characteristic of the Salisbury Plain landscape, an area of exceptional archaeological significance. The monument comprises a simple earthen mound of roughly circular form, typical of bowl barrow construction, which represents one of the most common burial mound types across prehistoric Britain. As a scheduled monument, it contributes to the archaeological record documenting funerary practices and settlement patterns across the third and second millennia BC.
Bowl barrow: one of a dipsersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009885. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located on Beacon Hill or Bulford Down in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009885.
Bowl barrow: one of a dipsersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford Down 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 1009885.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 530m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down (8.9 km), Bowl barrow 535m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down (9 km), Bell barrow and bowl barrow 500m NNW of Long Orchard (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow: one of a dipsersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford Down'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: one of a dipsersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.