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Three bowl barrows and a ring ditch 590m and 500m north west of The Four Winds is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Northamptonshire. The site comprises three distinct bowl barrows, characterised by their simple mounded earthwork construction, alongside a ring ditch feature which may represent either a further barrow or a circular ritual enclosure. These monuments are typical of the Bronze Age burial tradition in the English Midlands, when such earthwork barrows served as prominent markers in the landscape for the interment of elite or significant community members. The ring ditch element suggests the site may have held multiple phases of ritual or burial activity spanning the Bronze Age period.
Three bowl barrows and a ring ditch 590m and 500m north west of The Four Winds is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021318. View the official record →
Three bowl barrows and a ring ditch 590m and 500m north west of The Four Winds is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Northamptonshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021318.
Three bowl barrows and a ring ditch 590m and 500m north west of The Four Winds 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 1021318.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Old Customs House (7 km), Stanground churchyard cross (7.8 km), Stanground Wash Bronze Age Barrow Cemetery (7.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Three bowl barrows and a ring ditch 590m and 500m north west of The Four Winds's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Three bowl barrows and a ring ditch 590m and 500m north west of The Four Winds stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.