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Two bowl barrows on Galley Hill, 880m north east of the golf course club house, is an ancient monument comprising two Bronze Age burial mounds located in Bedfordshire. Bowl barrows are among the most common funerary monuments of the Bronze Age, typically consisting of a central burial pit surrounded by an earthen mound. These examples on Galley Hill represent the prehistoric mortuary practices of communities during the second millennium BC, when such structures served as repositories for the deceased and functioned as visible markers in the landscape. The barrows remain archaeologically significant as surviving examples of Bronze Age ceremonial and burial activity in the region.
Two bowl barrows on Galley Hill, 880m north east of the golf course club house is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015591. View the official record →
Two bowl barrows on Galley Hill, 880m north east of the golf course club house, is an ancient monument comprising two Bronze Age burial mounds located in Bedfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015591.
Two bowl barrows on Galley Hill, 880m north east of the golf course club house 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 1015591.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dray's Ditches (0.7 km), Ravensburgh Castle (2.4 km), Strip lynchets on Stopsley Common (3 km).
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Two bowl barrows on Galley Hill, 880m north east of the golf course club house stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.