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Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Milston-Bulford Down, a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, England. The site comprises a substantial earthwork mound of characteristic bowl-shaped form, typical of funerary monuments constructed during the second and early first millennia before the common era. The barrow group on Milston-Bulford Down represents an important concentration of prehistoric burial activity in the Wiltshire chalk downlands, an area particularly rich in Bronze Age archaeological remains. Such monuments, whether used for single or multiple burials, reflect the ritual and social practices of their period and remain significant for understanding prehistoric settlement and mortuary customs in southern Britain.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Milston-Bulford Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009476. View the official record →
Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Milston-Bulford Down, a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009476.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Milston-Bulford Down 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 1009476.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 650m ESE of Manor Farm: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down (9.3 km), Gomeldon deserted village (9.6 km), Two bowl barrows 265m south of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: part of a group of round barrows on Porton Down (9.9 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 on Milston-Bulford Down's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Milston-Bulford Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.