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Ilamtops Low bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. The monument survives as a rounded earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary form across prehistoric Britain. Bowl barrows typically date from the Early to Middle Bronze Age, roughly the second millennium BC, and often contained inhumation or cremation burials within central or peripheral graves. The survival of Ilamtops Low as an upstanding archaeological feature demonstrates the longevity of these burial monuments in the English landscape, though the specific details of its excavation history and internal structures remain subject to ongoing archaeological investigation.
Ilamtops Low bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008971. View the official record →
Ilamtops Low 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 1008971.
Ilamtops Low 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 1008971.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mayfield strip lynchets (6.9 km), Bowl barrow on Weaver Hills 600m south of Weaver Farm (7.4 km), Row Low bowl barrow (8.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ilamtops Low bowl barrow's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Ilamtops Low bowl barrow stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.