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Bowl barrow 500m west of Norley Inclosure

A Scheduled Monument in Boldre, Hampshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.7854 / 50°47'7"N

Longitude: -1.5143 / 1°30'51"W

OS Eastings: 434336.748576

OS Northings: 98537.427386

OS Grid: SZ343985

Mapcode National: GBR 77R.MZ4

Mapcode Global: FRA 77Q0.FX9

Entry Name: Bowl barrow 500m west of Norley Inclosure

Scheduled Date: 13 September 1963

Last Amended: 10 July 1992

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1008767

English Heritage Legacy ID: 20324

County: Hampshire

Civil Parish: Boldre

Built-Up Area: Pilley

Traditional County: Hampshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire

Church of England Parish: Boldre St John

Church of England Diocese: Winchester

Details

This monument includes a bowl barrow situated on lowland heath overlooking a
small boggy valley. The flat-topped barrow mound measures 13m in diameter and
stands up to 1.1m high. A shallow hollow in the centre of the mound, suggests
previous robbing or partial excavation. Surrounding the mound is a ditch from
which material was quarried during the construction of the barrow. This has
become partly infilled over the years, but survives as a slight earthwork 1.5m
wide and 0.2m deep.

MAP EXTRACT
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

Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are
a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable
variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.

Despite evidence for limited excavation, the bowl barrow 500m west of Norley
Inclosure survives comparatively well within the New Forest, an area known to
have been important in terms of lowland Bronze Age occupation. A considerable
amount of archaeological evidence has survived in this area because of a lack
of agricultural activity, the result of later climatic deterioration,
development of heath and the establishment of a Royal Forest.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Books and journals
Grinsell, L V, 'Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club' in Hampshire Barrows, , Vol. 14, (1938), 362

Source: Historic England

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