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Bowl barrow is a round barrow located west of Haxton Down in Wiltshire, England, and forms part of a pair of Bronze Age funerary monuments in this locality. The barrow exhibits the characteristic bowl-shaped mound form typical of Bronze Age burial sites, created as a earthwork memorial over a cremation or inhumation burial. As a designated heritage monument, it represents an important example of prehistoric funerary practice and landscape use during the second millennium BC. The site's preservation and official listing reflect its archaeological significance as evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and burial customs in the Wiltshire landscape.
Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009809. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a round barrow located west of Haxton Down in Wiltshire, England, and forms part of a pair of Bronze Age funerary monuments in this locality. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009809.
Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton 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 1009809.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Earl's Farm Down within Boscombe Down Airfield, 620m south west of the covered reservoir (9.3 km), Bowl barrow within Boscombe Down Airfield, 160m south east of The Rifle and Pistol Club (9.5 km), Lynchets at Southmill Hill (9.6 km).
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Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.