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Hanging Bank bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. The monument comprises a characteristic bowl-shaped earthwork typical of burial mounds constructed during the Bronze Age period. Bowl barrows of this type served as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains and represent an important class of funerary monument in prehistoric Britain. The site's survival to the present day, as recorded in the National Heritage List for England, reflects its archaeological significance as evidence of Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in the Midlands region.
Hanging Bank bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010387. View the official record →
Hanging Bank bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010387.
Hanging Bank 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 1010387.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Milk Hill (8.1 km), Bowl barrow 160m south of summit of Musden Low (8.2 km), Bowl barrow on Hazelton Hill (8.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Hanging Bank 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.
Hanging Bank bowl barrow stands on Bowland High Group And Craven Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone.