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Brown Low bowl barrow

England
List entry 1010823
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1010823
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.07 hectares
Grid reference
SJ 98811 90917
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Brown Low bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located in Derbyshire, England. The site consists of a circular earthwork mound characteristic of bowl barrow construction, a common burial form in prehistoric Britain. Bowl barrows of this type typically date from the third or second millennium BC and served as focal points for communal or elite burial practices. The monument survives as an important archaeological record of prehistoric mortuary custom and settlement patterns in the Peak District region.

Brown Low bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010823. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Brown Low bowl barrow?

Brown Low bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located in Derbyshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010823.

Who is responsible for protecting Brown Low bowl barrow?

Brown Low bowl barrow 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 1010823.

What other scheduled monuments are near Brown Low bowl barrow?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Oldknow's limekilns, Strines Road (3.5 km), Moated site north-west of Broadoak Farm (5.9 km), Cross base in the churchyard of St Mary's Church (6.6 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Oldknow's limekilns, Strines Road
3.5 km
Moated site north-west of Broadoak Farm
5.9 km
Cross base in the churchyard of St Mary's Church
6.6 km
Icehouse at the site of Poynton Hall, 170m north of Towers Yard Farm
8.8 km
Wayside and boundary cross known as The Dipping Stone
9.2 km
Bowl barrow east of path in Knightslow Wood
9.5 km
Bowl barrow west of path in Knightslow Wood
9.5 km
Bugsworth canal basin, tramway, quarry and limekilns
9.5 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Brown Low bowl barrow

Brown Low bowl barrow 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.

Domesday entry for Chisworth and Chisworth, Derbyshire →
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