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Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174 is a Bronze Age funerary monument forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill in Devon, England. These earthworks represent the characteristic burial practice of the early Bronze Age, when prominent individuals were interred beneath low mounds of earth and stone. The barrows survive as discrete topographical features within the wider landscape of Farway Hill, which contains several such monuments testament to the intensive burial activity of the period. Their location on the parish boundary suggests their prominence as territorial or genealogical markers within the prehistoric landscape of this region.
Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010272. View the official record →
Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174 is a Bronze Age funerary monument forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010272.
Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill 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 1010272.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 100m south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (0.1 km), Two bowl barrows to the north west of Roncombe Gate Farm, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (0.3 km), Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down (1.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill'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.
Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.