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Bowl barrow is a round barrow located on Silk Hill in Wiltshire, England, and forms part of a significant cluster of Bronze Age burial monuments in the region. The barrow is characterised by its distinctive bowl-shaped earthwork, a common form of funerary mound dating to the Bronze Age period. As part of the group of round barrows on Silk Hill, it represents evidence of prehistoric burial practices and settlement patterns in Wiltshire, contributing to our understanding of Bronze Age communities and their territorial organisation across the chalk downlands.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017935. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a round barrow located on Silk Hill in Wiltshire, England, and forms part of a significant cluster of Bronze Age burial monuments in the region. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017935.
Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill 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 1017935.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow cemetery in New Plantation 590m ESE of Amesbury Junction (8.8 km), Bowl barrow 250m south east of Tower Hill (9.6 km), Ogbury camp (9.8 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 Silk Hill'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 on Silk Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.