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Bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire, forming part of a dispersed group of barrows situated south-east of Norton Plantation. The monument takes its name from its characteristic rounded, bowl-like profile, a common form among burial mounds constructed during the prehistoric period in southern England. As a scheduled ancient monument, it represents an important survival of funerary practice from the third or second millennium before the present, preserving evidence of ritual burial and settlement patterns in the Wiltshire landscape.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009825. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire, forming part of a dispersed group of barrows situated south-east of Norton Plantation. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009825.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation 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 1009825.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork enclosure in Penning Wood, 290m NE of Penning (7.6 km), Bowl barrow in High Park on south facing slope of Fonthill Down (8.5 km), Bowl barrow 1480m east of Keysley Farm (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation'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 group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.