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Saucer Barrow in Warren Wood is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Kent, England. The monument is a saucer barrow, a type of low, broad earthwork characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice in southern England. Such barrows typically served as communal or individual burial sites and represent significant investment in commemorative landscape features during the Bronze Age period. The site remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric burial customs and settlement patterns in the Kentish landscape.
Saucer Barrow in Warren Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012222. View the official record →
Saucer Barrow in Warren Wood is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Kent, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012222.
Saucer Barrow in Warren 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 1012222.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval moated site, Quarrington Manor (7.5 km), Bowl barrow on Swinyard's Hill (8 km), Bowl barrow, the northernmost of six in West Wood (8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Saucer Barrow in Warren Wood'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.
Saucer Barrow in Warren Wood stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.