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Highley Hill bowl barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Hertfordshire. The site consists of a circular earthwork mound characteristic of bowl barrows, a burial type common in Britain during the second millennium BCE. Bowl barrows typically served as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains and often marked the graves of individuals of elevated social status within their communities. The monument's survival as an upstanding earthwork provides evidence of Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in the Hertfordshire landscape.
Highley Hill bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009428. View the official record →
Highley Hill bowl barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Hertfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009428.
Highley Hill 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 1009428.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hankins Moated Site, Roe Green (5.2 km), Romano-British small town and Late Iron Age settlement at Baldock (5.4 km), 'The Mount' (5.4 km).
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