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Bowl barrow is a round barrow or burial mound situated on Pen Hills in Hertfordshire, England. This monument, recorded with National Heritage List entry 1010430, dates to the Bronze Age and represents one of two barrows surviving on the site. The barrow is characterised by a simple bowl-shaped mound, a common form for Bronze Age funerary monuments in southern England. Such earthworks provide important archaeological evidence for prehistoric settlement patterns and burial practices in the region.
Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows on Pen Hills is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010430. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a round barrow or burial mound situated on Pen Hills in Hertfordshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010430.
Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows on Pen Hills 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 1010430.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Triple ditches at Galley Hill (4.7 km), Moated site, Goodfellows. (4.8 km), Bowl barrow 1km south-west of Heath Farm: part of the round barrow cemetery on Deadman's Hill (4.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows on Pen Hills'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 two round barrows on Pen Hills stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.