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Sutton Common bowl barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire, England. The site is designated as a scheduled monument under the National Heritage List for England reference 1010768. Bowl barrows of this type represent a characteristic burial tradition of the Bronze Age, typically comprising a mound of earth and stone raised over a central burial pit or cremation deposit. Like many such monuments across the Yorkshire landscape, it constitutes an important archaeological record of prehistoric mortuary practice and settlement patterns in northern England.
Sutton Common bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010768. View the official record →
Sutton Common bowl barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010768.
Sutton Common bowl barrow 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 1010768.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Tilts moated site (2.9 km), Cross in the churchyard of St Laurence's Church, Adwick le Street (4.5 km), Round About Moat, Arksey (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Sutton Common bowl barrow'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.
Sutton Common bowl barrow stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.