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The Pair of bowl barrows on Thursley Common is a Bronze Age funerary monument consisting of two round barrows located on the open heathland of Thursley Common in Surrey. Bowl barrows of this type are characterised by their simple hemispherical mound structure and typically date to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, representing burials of the period roughly between 2000 and 1000 BCE. The barrows survive as earthwork mounds on the common and form part of the wider Bronze Age burial landscape of the Surrey heathlands, which contain numerous similar monuments. These monuments are of archaeological significance for understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in the south-eastern England of the second and early first millennia BCE.
Pair of bowl barrows on Thursley Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017718. View the official record →
The Pair of bowl barrows on Thursley Common is a Bronze Age funerary monument consisting of two round barrows located on the open heathland of Thursley Common in Surrey. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017718.
Pair of bowl barrows on Thursley Common 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 1017718.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 200m east of Penmead Copse: one of a group of four bowl barrows on Witley Common (1.4 km), Bowl barrow 400m north-east of the sewage works: one of a group of four bowl barrows on Witley Common (1.4 km), Bowl barrow 430m north of Thursley Lake: one of a group of four bowl barrows on Witley Common (1.4 km).
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Pair of bowl barrows on Thursley Common stands on Lower Greensand Group, bedrock that formed in the Albian. The rock here is sandstone and mudstone.