Bowl barrow 300m WSW of Fishpool Lane Farm

Overview

Heritage Category: Scheduled Monument

List Entry Number: 1007632

Date first listed: 24-Feb-1978

Date of most recent amendment: 21-Feb-1994

Location

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

National Grid Reference: SJ 56336 67033

Reasons for Designation

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 arable ploughing which has spread the monument, the bowl barrow 300m WSW of Fishpool Lane Farm survives reasonably well. It will contain undisturbed archaeological deposits within the mound and upon the old landsurface beneath.

Details

The monument is a bowl barrow located on a local high point 300m WSW of Fishpool Lane Farm. It includes a slightly oval earthen mound up to 0.3m high with maximum dimensions of 22m by 20m. It was originally one of a group of seven barrows known collectively as the Seven Lows. Of these only five remain identifiable.

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.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number: 23617

Legacy System: RSM

Sources

Other
Darvill,T., MPP Single Monument Class Description - Bowl Barrows, (1988)

Legal

This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.