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Bowl barrow: part of a barrow cemetery in Holden's Firs is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Berkshire, England. The monument forms part of a larger barrow cemetery and is of the bowl barrow type, a common funerary monument form of the Bronze Age period. Such barrows typically comprised an earthen mound raised over a cremation or inhumation burial, often accompanied by grave goods. The site is designated as a heritage monument under list entry 1012427, reflecting its archaeological significance as evidence of Bronze Age mortuary practice and ceremonial landscape use in the region.
Bowl barrow: part of a barrow cemetery in Holden's Firs is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012427. View the official record →
Bowl barrow: part of a barrow cemetery in Holden's Firs is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Berkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012427.
Bowl barrow: part of a barrow cemetery in Holden's Firs 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 1012427.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hillfort south west of Pond Farm, near Silchester (2.7 km), The Late Iron Age oppidum and Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum and associated features (2.8 km), Grim's Bank: section extending 470yds (430m) in Little Heath (3.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow: part of a barrow cemetery in Holden's Firs'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: part of a barrow cemetery in Holden's Firs stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.