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Bowl barrow is a round barrow situated west of Haxton Down in Wiltshire and dates to the Bronze Age. The monument consists of a circular mound of earth and stone characteristic of burial monuments constructed during the second millennium BCE. As one of a pair of barrows in this location, it represents the funerary practices of Bronze Age communities in the Wiltshire chalk downlands. These monuments were constructed as sepulchral mounds, typically containing inhumations or cremations within central or peripheral burial deposits.
Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010062. View the official record →
Bowl barrow is a round barrow situated west of Haxton Down in Wiltshire and dates to the Bronze Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010062.
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 1010062.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newton Barrows, a round barrow cemetery on Earl's Farm Down (9.4 km), Bowl barrow immediately south of the embankment of a disused railway, within Boscombe Down Airfield, 870m south east of The Pennings (9.4 km), Bowl barrow on Earl's Farm Down within Boscombe Down Airfield, 620m south west of the covered reservoir (9.6 km).
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