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Bowl barrow on edge of Dirtley Wood

A Scheduled Monument in Warminster, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2351 / 51°14'6"N

Longitude: -2.1546 / 2°9'16"W

OS Eastings: 389303.94906

OS Northings: 148443.840934

OS Grid: ST893484

Mapcode National: GBR 1TV.G3Y

Mapcode Global: VH97H.L7T0

Entry Name: Bowl barrow on edge of Dirtley Wood

Scheduled Date: 22 April 1966

Last Amended: 13 March 1990

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1009907

English Heritage Legacy ID: 10077

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Warminster

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Upton Scudamore St Mary the Virgin

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

Details

A small bowl barrow c.16m diameter, lying in an unusual position at the bottom
of a narrow coombe.

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The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

The most complete and extensive survival of chalk downland archaeological
remains in central southern England occurs on Salisbury Plain, particularly in
those areas lying within the Salisbury Plain Training Area. These remains
represent one of the few extant archaeological "landscapes" in Britain and are
considered to be of special significance because they differ in character from
those in other areas with comparable levels of preservation. Individual sites
on Salisbury Plain are seen as being additionally important because the
evidence of their direct association with each other survives so well. Some
470 round barrows, funerary monuments dating to the Late Neolithic and Early
Bronze Age, are known to have existed in the Salisbury Plain Training Area,
many grouped together as cemeteries. The total includes some 70 barrows of
rare types. Such is the quality of the survival of the archaeological
landscape, over 300 of these barrows have been identified as nationally
important.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
Trust for Wessex Archaeology, (1987)
Wiltshire Library & Museum Service, (1987)

Source: Historic England

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