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Western bowl barrow at Knights Low is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial mound situated in Cheshire, England. The monument takes the form of a bowl barrow, a common funerary monument type of prehistoric date characterised by a circular mound with a surrounding ditch. The barrow forms part of the Knights Low complex, a significant concentration of prehistoric burial monuments in the region. Like other examples of its class, it represents an important archaeological record of early funerary practice and ritual landscape organisation in north-western England.
Western bowl barrow at Knights Low is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007383. View the official record →
Western bowl barrow at Knights Low is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial mound situated in Cheshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007383.
Western bowl barrow at Knights Low 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 1007383.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow at Charles Head (3 km), Nab Head bowl barrow (3.7 km), Bowl barrow 100m west of Black Rock Farm (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Western bowl barrow at Knights Low'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.
Western bowl barrow at Knights Low stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.