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Bowl barrow: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield Heath is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Hertfordshire. The barrow is a simple dome-shaped earthwork of the type characteristic of the Early Bronze Age, when such monuments were erected across southern Britain as burial places for prominent individuals and their grave goods. Therfield Heath contains one of the more extensive round barrow cemeteries in the region, indicating sustained ceremonial use of the landscape during the Bronze Age. The bowl barrow form, with its distinctive profile, represents a common burial tradition spanning roughly the second and third millennia before the present.
Bowl barrow: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield Heath is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009757. View the official record →
Bowl barrow: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield Heath is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Hertfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009757.
Bowl barrow: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield Heath 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 1009757.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site, Goodfellows. (4.6 km), Double moat and fishpond, Queenbury (4.8 km), Reed Hall moated site, Reed (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield Heath's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield Heath stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.