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The Tong bowl barrow and long barrow is a Bronze Age and Neolithic burial monument situated in Derbyshire. The site comprises two distinct earthworks: a bowl barrow typical of Bronze Age funerary practice and an associated long barrow representing the earlier Neolithic tradition of communal burial. Both monuments survive as substantial earthen mounds within the landscape, preserving evidence of successive periods of ritual and burial activity across several millennia. The combination of these two monument types at a single location reflects the complex patterns of ritual reuse and monument building across prehistoric Derbyshire.
The Tong bowl barrow and long barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017542. View the official record →
The Tong bowl barrow and long barrow is a Bronze Age and Neolithic burial monument situated in Derbyshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017542.
The Tong bowl barrow and long 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 1017542.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Five Wells chambered tomb (6 km), Two bowl barrows on Chelmorton Low (6.4 km), Nether Low bowl barrow (7.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The Tong bowl barrow and long 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 Tong bowl barrow and long barrow stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.