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Top Low bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. The site consists of a earthen bowl barrow, a monument type characteristic of the early to middle Bronze Age period, constructed as a funerary structure to cover inhumation or cremation burials. Bowl barrows of this type typically comprise a circular mound of earth and stone, often surrounded by a ditch, and represent significant ritual investment in the commemoration of the dead during the Bronze Age. The monument survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric burial practices in the Midlands region.
Top Low bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009654. View the official record →
Top Low bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Staffordshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009654.
Top Low 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 1009654.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 70m north-west of The Boxes (5.3 km), Calwich Low bowl barrow (5.4 km), Marlpit Lane bowl barrow (6.4 km).
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