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Two bowl barrows at Big Wood, 580m south west and 470m south of Moorland Cottage, is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated in Devon. These earthen mounds represent a characteristic form of burial practice during the Bronze Age, when communities constructed individual or small-group burial mounds across the landscape. The barrows reflect the social structure and burial customs of their period, serving as enduring markers of prehistoric settlement and territorial organisation. Both monuments remain visible as archaeological features within the Devon landscape, contributing to the broader distribution pattern of Bronze Age barrows in south-western England.
Two bowl barrows at Big Wood, 580m south west and 470m south of Moorland Cottage is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017949. View the official record →
Two bowl barrows at Big Wood, 580m south west and 470m south of Moorland Cottage, is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017949.
Two bowl barrows at Big Wood, 580m south west and 470m south of Moorland Cottage 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 1017949.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Three bowl barrows on Lympstone Common, 500m west of Fryingpans (0.9 km), Two bowl barrows on Bicton Common, 770m and 780m north of Frying Pans (1.8 km), Four bowl barrows at Four Firs on Woodbury Common (2.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Two bowl barrows at Big Wood, 580m south west and 470m south of Moorland Cottage's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Two bowl barrows at Big Wood, 580m south west and 470m south of Moorland Cottage stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.