Scheduled MonumentsEnglandThree bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm

Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm

England
List entry 1004409
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1004409
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.25 hectares
Grid reference
SX1317786359, SX1307486317, SX1318686428
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Three Bowl Barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Cornwall. The site comprises three round barrows of the type known as bowl barrows, characteristic earthwork monuments of the second millennium BCE. Such barrows served as burial mounds for prominent members of Bronze Age communities and typically contained inhumations or cremations accompanied by grave goods. The monument represents an important surviving example of Bronze Age burial practice in the Cornish landscape, where clusters of barrows frequently indicate cemetery sites or sustained use of burial grounds across generations.

Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004409. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm?

Three Bowl Barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Cornwall. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004409.

Who is responsible for protecting Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm?

Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm 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 1004409.

What other scheduled monuments are near Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor (8.2 km), Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra (8.4 km), Kerbed cairn 500m east of Casehill (8.5 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm

Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.