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Bowl barrow 900m north of Down Farm

A Scheduled Monument in Nettleton, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5017 / 51°30'6"N

Longitude: -2.3125 / 2°18'44"W

OS Eastings: 378405.649286

OS Northings: 178128.234387

OS Grid: ST784781

Mapcode National: GBR 0P0.XTY

Mapcode Global: VH961.VJV5

Entry Name: Bowl barrow 900m north of Down Farm

Scheduled Date: 21 January 1999

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1018391

English Heritage Legacy ID: 31655

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Nettleton

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: West Kington

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow located on the Cotswold Downland to the
west of the village of Nettleton.
The mound of the barrow is circular, 35m in diameter and 0.5m high. It is
surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during its
construction. This has been infilled over the years and survives as a buried
feature 3.5m wide. It lies 350m north west of a long barrow and 400m north of
two further round barrows.

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.

The bowl barrow 900m north of Down Farm will contain archaeological remains
and environmental evidence relating to the monument and the landscape in which
it was constructed. Bowl barrows are comparatively rare in this area.

Source: Historic England

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