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Bowl barrow is a round barrow of Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date located within Milston Down Wood near Milston in Wiltshire, England. The monument forms part of a significant group of eight round barrows situated on this chalk downland, representing an important concentration of burial activity in the region. As a bowl barrow, it is characterised by its distinctive rounded mound form, typical of funerary monuments constructed during the prehistoric period for elite or community burials. The site is protected as a scheduled monument and remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric mortuary practice and settlement patterns on Salisbury Plain.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of eight round barrows in Milston Down Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009468. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a round barrow of Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date located within Milston Down Wood near Milston in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009468.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of eight round barrows in Milston Down Wood 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 1009468.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow cemetery in New Plantation 590m ESE of Amesbury Junction (8 km), Bowl barrow 250m south east of Tower Hill (8.8 km), Bowl barrow 250m south of Martin's Clump (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow: one of a group of eight round barrows in Milston Down Wood'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 eight round barrows in Milston Down Wood stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.