Scheduled MonumentsEnglandFrowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn

Frowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn

England
List entry 1009481
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1009481
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.24 hectares
Grid reference
SU 93893 47690
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Frowsbury Mound is a bowl barrow located approximately 70 metres south of Clear Barn in Surrey, England. The monument dates to the Bronze Age and represents a common form of burial mound construction characteristic of the period, wherein a circular earthwork was raised over a cremation or inhumation burial. As a scheduled ancient monument, it forms part of the archaeological record documenting Bronze Age funerary practices in the Surrey region. The barrow's survival to the present day, despite later land use and development pressures, provides valuable evidence for understanding the distribution and form of burial monuments across southern England.

Frowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009481. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Frowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn?

Frowsbury Mound is a bowl barrow located approximately 70 metres south of Clear Barn in Surrey, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009481.

Who is responsible for protecting Frowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn?

Frowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn 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 1009481.

What other scheduled monuments are near Frowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Eashing Bridge, Lower Eashing (3.9 km), Anglo-Saxon fortified centre at Eashing (4 km), Somerset Bridge (4.1 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
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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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Frowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn

Frowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.

The wider landscape

Around Frowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn

SilchesterRoman town · ~20.7 miles