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Three Bowl Barrows is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Elhampark Wood near Eltham in Greater London. The site consists of three round barrows, characteristic funerary structures of the Bronze Age period, likely dating to between 2000 and 1000 BC. These earthworks represent important evidence of prehistoric settlement and burial practices in the London area during the second millennium BC. The barrows, despite their age and the passage of time, remain visible as landscape features within the woodland setting and are designated as a scheduled ancient monument reflecting their archaeological significance.
Three Bowl Barrows in Elhampark Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012219. View the official record →
Three Bowl Barrows is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Elhampark Wood near Eltham in Greater London. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012219.
Three Bowl Barrows in Elhampark Wood 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 1012219.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 700m east of Tolsford Plantation on Tolsford Hill (7.2 km), Bowl barrow 250m west of Brockman's Bushes plantation on Tolsford Hill (7.3 km), World War I Practice Trenches, Tolsford Hill (7.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Three Bowl Barrows in Elhampark Wood'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.
Three Bowl Barrows in Elhampark Wood stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.