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Bowl barrow west of path in Knightslow Wood is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Cheshire, England. The monument takes the form of a simple bowl barrow, a characteristic funerary structure of the Bronze Age period, defined by its distinctive rounded mound shape without the more complex ditches or banks found in other barrow types. The site is situated within Knightslow Wood, where it survives as a landscape feature of archaeological importance, contributing to evidence of Bronze Age settlement and burial practices in the northwest Midlands region. Such barrows typically served as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains and represent significant investment in mortuary ritual during the second and early first millennia before Christ.
Bowl barrow west of path in Knightslow Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007380. View the official record →
Bowl barrow west of path in Knightslow Wood is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Cheshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007380.
Bowl barrow west of path in Knightslow Wood 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 1007380.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow at Charles Head (3.2 km), Nab Head bowl barrow (3.8 km), Bowl barrow 100m west of Black Rock Farm (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow west of path in Knightslow Wood'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 west of path in Knightslow Wood stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.