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Bowl barrow is a round barrow located in Bourne Bottom, Wiltshire, and forms part of a significant group of Bronze Age burial monuments in the area. The barrow takes its name from its characteristic bowl-shaped profile, a common form among round barrows of the second millennium BCE. As a scheduled ancient monument, it represents an important example of prehistoric funerary practice and landscape use in Bronze Age Wessex. The barrow group in Bourne Bottom collectively demonstrates the ritual and social importance of burial in this region during the Bronze Age period.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows in Bourne Bottom is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009714. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a round barrow located in Bourne Bottom, Wiltshire, and forms part of a significant group of Bronze Age burial monuments in the area. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009714.
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 1009714.
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 (9.5 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.