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Bowl barrow south of Rivar Copse is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a barrow cemetery on Inkpen Hill in Berkshire. The monument is a simple bowl barrow, the most common form of burial mound in Bronze Age Britain, constructed as a low earthwork mound raised over one or more inhumations or cremations. Its position within the larger barrow cemetery on Inkpen Hill, which contains multiple burial monuments of Bronze Age date, reflects the importance of this elevated location for funerary practice during the second millennium before Christ. The site is recorded in the National Heritage List for England under entry 1012423.
Bowl barrow south of Rivar Copse: part of a barrow cemetery on Inkpen Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012423. View the official record →
Bowl barrow south of Rivar Copse is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a barrow cemetery on Inkpen Hill in Berkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012423.
Bowl barrow south of Rivar Copse: part of a barrow cemetery on Inkpen Hill 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 1012423.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 450m north of Cross Droves (3.8 km), Netherton medieval settlement earthworks (4.9 km), Long barrow on Smay Down, 300m east of The Hassock (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow south of Rivar Copse: part of a barrow cemetery on Inkpen Hill'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 south of Rivar Copse: part of a barrow cemetery on Inkpen Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.