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A pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation, is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. Bowl barrows represent the most common form of burial mound from this period and typically contained inhumation or cremation burials within or beneath a simple earthen mound. The two barrows at this location form part of the extensive prehistoric landscape of the Wiltshire downlands, an area rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments. Like other bowl barrows of their type, they would date to the Bronze Age, a period spanning roughly 2100 to 700 BC in Britain.
Pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007492. View the official record →
A pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation, is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007492.
Pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation 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 1007492.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rybury camp (5.4 km), All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site (5.8 km), Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill (6.3 km).
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Pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.