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Hilly Plantation bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located within the Chippenham barrow cemetery in Cambridgeshire, situated approximately 500 metres south-west of Waterhall Farm. The monument is a bowl barrow, the most common form of round barrow, consisting of a central burial mound surrounded by a ditch. As part of the Chippenham cemetery, it represents one of several barrows grouped within this Bronze Age ritual landscape, typical of burial practices during the later prehistoric period. The site remains significant as an archaeological witness to funerary customs and settlement patterns in the Cambridgeshire fenlands during the Bronze Age.
Hilly Plantation bowl barrow, part of the Chippenham barrow cemetery, 500m south west of Waterhall Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015245. View the official record →
Hilly Plantation bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located within the Chippenham barrow cemetery in Cambridgeshire, situated approximately 500 metres south-west of Waterhall Farm. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015245.
Hilly Plantation bowl barrow, part of the Chippenham barrow cemetery, 500m south west of Waterhall Farm 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 1015245.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 630m south east of Waterhall Farm, part of the Chippenham barrow cemetery (0.9 km), Packhorse bridge (3.2 km), Three bowl barrows 750m south west of Pin Farm (4.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Hilly Plantation bowl barrow, part of the Chippenham barrow cemetery, 500m south west of Waterhall Farm'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.
Hilly Plantation bowl barrow, part of the Chippenham barrow cemetery, 500m south west of Waterhall Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.