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Bowl barrow is a round barrow located in Bourne Bottom, Wiltshire, and forms part of a significant grouping of burial mounds in this locality. The monument dates to the Bronze Age and exemplifies the bowl barrow type, characterised by a circular mound of earth and stone raised over a central burial or burials. As a scheduled ancient monument, it represents an important survival of prehistoric funerary practice and contributes to the archaeological landscape of the Wiltshire downlands, where such barrow groups are concentrated evidence of Bronze Age settlement and ritual activity.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows in Bourne Bottom is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009729. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a round barrow located in Bourne Bottom, Wiltshire, and forms part of a significant grouping of burial mounds in this locality. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009729.
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 1009729.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Linear boundary earthwork 250m west of Stockport (8.9 km), Bowl barrow 320m north east of Straight Walk Plantation: one of a group of round barrows south of Hampshire Gap (9.5 km), Round barrow cemetery 250m east of Straight Walk Plantation (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.