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Five bowl barrows 550m north of Trewindle is a Bronze Age burial cemetery comprising five distinct round barrows located in Cornwall, England. The barrows form part of a wider round barrow cemetery in the landscape, representing a significant concentration of funerary monuments from the Bronze Age period. Bowl barrows are among the most common type of round barrow, characterised by their simple hemispherical earthwork form constructed over cremation or inhumation burials. The site's grouping reflects Bronze Age burial practices and territorial organisation, with such cemetery clusters providing important evidence for settlement patterns and social structure during the second and early first millennia BC.
Five bowl barrows 550m north of Trewindle forming part of a round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004436. View the official record →
Five bowl barrows 550m north of Trewindle is a Bronze Age burial cemetery comprising five distinct round barrows located in Cornwall, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004436.
Five bowl barrows 550m north of Trewindle forming part of a round barrow cemetery 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 1004436.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Small multivallate hillfort on Bury Down, 530m north-east of South Park (6.2 km), Lerryn Bridge (6.2 km), Crewel Cross, at No Man's Land (6.6 km).
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Five bowl barrows 550m north of Trewindle forming part of a round barrow cemetery stands on Lower Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.