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Bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in the dispersed barrow group south-east of Norton Plantation in Wiltshire. The monument is a bowl barrow, a common type of round burial mound characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice in southern England. The site forms part of a broader distribution of barrows in the landscape, reflecting the sustained use of the area for burial during the second and early first millennia before the Common Era. As a designated heritage monument, the barrow remains a significant archaeological record of Bronze Age settlement and burial practices in Wiltshire.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009826. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in the dispersed barrow group south-east of Norton Plantation in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009826.
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 1009826.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork enclosure in Penning Wood, 290m NE of Penning (7.7 km), Bowl barrow in High Park on south facing slope of Fonthill Down (8.6 km), Bowl barrow 1480m east of Keysley Farm (9.1 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.