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Over Norton bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Oxfordshire near the intersection of the A361 and A34(T) roads. The monument is a bowl barrow, a common funerary form of the Bronze Age period, comprising an earthen mound raised over one or more burials. Such barrows served as prominent landscape markers for the dead and reflect the ceremonial practices and social organisation of Bronze Age communities. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains a significant archaeological record of prehistoric burial practice in the region.
Over Norton bowl barrow 150m north west of the intersection between the A361 and the A34(T) is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009431. View the official record →
Over Norton bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Oxfordshire near the intersection of the A361 and A34(T) roads. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009431.
Over Norton bowl barrow 150m north west of the intersection between the A361 and the A34(T) 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 1009431.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Roundabout hillfort, 460m west of Barter's Hill Farm (7.4 km), Lyneham long barrow and standing stone, 480m north east of Hill Barn (7.8 km), Section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch running into the northern edge of Shilcott Wood on the Ditchley Estate (8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Over Norton bowl barrow 150m north west of the intersection between the A361 and the A34(T)'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.
Over Norton bowl barrow 150m north west of the intersection between the A361 and the A34(T) stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.