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The Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Oxfordshire. Bowl barrows are among the most common forms of prehistoric burial mound, typically comprising a circular earthwork with a central burial pit or cremation deposit. These two examples represent the domestic funeral practices of Bronze Age communities in the region, dating to the second millennium BCE. The monument survives as an archaeological record of ritual and mortuary custom from this period, though like many such barrows its original composition and contents can now only be inferred from earthwork morphology and comparative study with excavated examples.
Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015212. View the official record →
The Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Oxfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015212.
Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood 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 1015212.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dovecote 125m north of Minster Lovell Hall (3.2 km), Minster Lovell Hall (3.4 km), Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm (4.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.