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Hill Wood bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire, England. The monument survives as a rounded earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary form of the Bronze Age period. As a scheduled ancient monument, it represents an important archaeological resource documenting prehistoric burial practices and landscape use in the region. The site contributes to the substantial archaeological heritage of Wiltshire, an area particularly rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments.
Hill Wood bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009764. View the official record →
Hill Wood bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009764.
Hill Wood 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 1009764.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Part of a prehistoric field system on Codford Down (10.1 km), Strip lynchet system north of Cotley Hill (10.3 km), Strip lynchet system east of Cotley Hill Woods (10.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Hill Wood 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.
Hill Wood bowl barrow stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.