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Bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow located on Four Hundred Down in Wiltshire, England. It is one of three barrows occupying this downland location and represents a burial monument characteristic of prehistoric ritual and funerary practice in southern England. The barrow takes its name from its distinctive bowl-shaped earthwork profile, which has been created by the mounding of soil and chalk over an inhumed burial or burials. As with many such monuments on the Wiltshire downs, its precise dating and original contents remain uncertain, though its morphology suggests construction during the Neolithic or early Bronze Age periods.
Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Four Hundred Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010146. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow located on Four Hundred Down in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010146.
Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Four Hundred 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 1010146.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Robin Hood's Bower earthwork enclosure in Southleigh Wood (8.2 km), Henge monument 350m north-east of Long Ivor Farm (8.4 km), Bowl barrow 130m south-west of North End Farm (8.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Four Hundred Down's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Four Hundred Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.