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Kipscombe bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Devon, England. The monument is a bowl barrow, a common funerary form of the Bronze Age characterised by a circular earthen mound raised over a central burial pit or cremation deposit. Such barrows typically served as focal points for Bronze Age communities and often accumulated multiple burials or ritual deposits over time. The site's survival as an archaeological feature contributes to understanding Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in the Devon landscape.
Kipscombe bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016658. View the official record →
Kipscombe bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016658.
Kipscombe 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 1016658.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow cemetery 500m east of Little Bray Cross (2.2 km), Camp on Mockham Down (3.9 km), Camp S of Birch Ham Wood (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Kipscombe 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.
Kipscombe bowl barrow stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.