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Bowl barrow is a round barrow located in Bourne Bottom, Wiltshire, England, forming part of a significant group of Bronze Age burial monuments in the locality. The barrow takes its name from its distinctive bowl-shaped mound profile, a characteristic form of round barrow construction dating to the Bronze Age period. As a scheduled monument protected under heritage legislation, it represents an important example of prehistoric funerary practice and settlement patterns in the Wiltshire landscape. The barrow group at Bourne Bottom collectively demonstrates the ritual and ceremonial significance of this area during the second millennium BCE.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows in Bourne Bottom is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009687. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a round barrow located in Bourne Bottom, Wiltshire, England, forming part of a significant group of Bronze Age burial monuments in the locality. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009687.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows in Bourne Bottom 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 1009687.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 340m east of Stockport (8.5 km), Linear boundary earthwork 250m west of Stockport (9 km), Two bowl barrows 380m north east of Straight Walk Plantation: part of a group of round barrows south of Hampshire Gap (9.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows in Bourne Bottom'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 round barrows in Bourne Bottom stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.