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The Lows bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. The monument consists of a circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows of the prehistoric period, representing an important form of funerary monument in the later Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape. Its survival to the present day provides valuable archaeological evidence of prehistoric burial practices and settlement patterns in the Midlands region. The site is recorded in the National Heritage List for England under entry 1010381.
The Lows bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010381. View the official record →
The Lows bowl barrow is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010381.
The Lows 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 1010381.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 110m south-west of Threelows Cottages (6.7 km), Threelows bowl barrow (6.8 km), Bowl barrow on Weaver Hills 570m south of Weaver Farm (7.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The Lows 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.
The Lows bowl barrow stands on Bowland High Group And Craven Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone.