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Nab Head bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Cheshire, England. The monument takes the form of a bowl barrow, a round mound characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice in Britain, and is scheduled as an ancient monument under the national heritage listing system. The site represents the burial traditions of early Bronze Age communities in the North West of England, a period during which such earthwork monuments served as focal points for ancestor veneration and ritual activity within the landscape.
Nab Head bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007396. View the official record →
Nab Head bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Cheshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007396.
Nab Head 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 1007396.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow in Lavenham Close, Tytherington (4.7 km), Three early medieval cross shafts in West Park (5.5 km), Standing cross on Prestbury Road, 150m south east of Lane End crossroads (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Nab Head 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.
Nab Head bowl barrow stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.