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A pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain is a Bronze Age funerary monument in Oxfordshire. The two barrows are positioned adjacent to one another, sharing a common baseline in a confluent arrangement typical of Bronze Age burial practices on the Oxfordshire downs. The site forms part of the significant concentration of barrow complexes distributed across the Leigh Hale Plain, which served as a cemetery landscape during the Bronze Age period. These earthworks represent an important archaeological record of prehistoric burial ritual and settlement patterns in the region.
Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008492. View the official record →
A pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain is a Bronze Age funerary monument in Oxfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008492.
Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain 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 1008492.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods (0.9 km), Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood (1.1 km), Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages (1.1 km).
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Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.