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Cart Low bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. The monument consists of a substantial earthen mound of circular plan, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the later prehistoric period. Such barrows typically served as communal or individual burial monuments, reflecting the ritual and funerary practices of early agricultural communities in the Midlands region. The site represents an important survival of prehistoric monumental landscape archaeology in Staffordshire.
Cart Low bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008965. View the official record →
Cart Low bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008965.
Cart 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 1008965.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Weaver Hills 600m south of Weaver Farm (4.9 km), Bowl barrow 440m north of Banks Farm (6.1 km), Mayfield strip lynchets (7.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cart Low bowl barrow'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.
Cart Low bowl barrow stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.