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Eastern bowl barrow at Knights Low is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Cheshire, England. The monument comprises a circular earthwork of the bowl barrow type, a characteristic form of burial monument dating to the Bronze Age period. Bowl barrows of this class typically consist of a central burial pit surrounded by a mounded earthwork, often serving as a communal or family burial site. The barrow at Knights Low remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary practice and settlement patterns in the Cheshire region.
Eastern bowl barrow at Knights Low is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007382. View the official record →
Eastern bowl barrow at Knights Low is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Cheshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007382.
Eastern bowl barrow at Knights Low 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 1007382.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow at Charles Head (3 km), Nab Head bowl barrow (3.7 km), Bowl barrow 100m west of Black Rock Farm (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Eastern bowl barrow at Knights Low'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.
Eastern bowl barrow at Knights Low 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.