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Enclosure and bowl barrow on Charnage Down is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, north west of Chaddenwick Hill. The site comprises a bowl barrow, a common form of burial mound characteristic of the Bronze Age period, associated with an enclosed earthwork. The monument represents the funerary and ritual practices of Bronze Age communities in the Wiltshire landscape, typical of the considerable barrow populations that characterise the downland of the region.
Enclosure and bowl barrow on Charnage Down, north west of Chaddenwick Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017699. View the official record →
Enclosure and bowl barrow on Charnage Down is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, north west of Chaddenwick Hill. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017699.
Enclosure and bowl barrow on Charnage Down, north west of Chaddenwick 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 1017699.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 190m north east of Burton Farm (2.4 km), Mere Castle (3.7 km), Four bowl barrows on Long Hill, 220m west of Mere Castle (3.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Enclosure and bowl barrow on Charnage Down, north west of Chaddenwick 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.
Enclosure and bowl barrow on Charnage Down, north west of Chaddenwick Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.