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Two bowl barrows on Shiplate Slait is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset, England. The site comprises two distinct bowl barrows, the characteristic rounded burial mounds that represent one of the most common forms of prehistoric sepulchral architecture across southern Britain. These monuments reflect the mortuary practices and landscape use of communities during the third and second millennia before the Common Era. The barrows' survival on Shiplate Slait demonstrates the persistence of these Bronze Age features within the Somerset landscape, though like many such monuments they have been subject to erosion and modification over their extensive chronological span.
Two bowl barrows on Shiplate Slait is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008112. View the official record →
Two bowl barrows on Shiplate Slait is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008112.
Two bowl barrows on Shiplate Slait 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 1008112.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Shiplate Slait (0 km), Shrunken medieval village of Christon and associated field system 200m north of Manor Farm (1.2 km), Churchyard cross in St Andrew's churchyard (1.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Two bowl barrows on Shiplate Slait's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Two bowl barrows on Shiplate Slait stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.