Bowl barrow 170m north east of Hacking Boat House

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number:: 1008909
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1925

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number:: 1008909
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1925
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Aug-1994

Location

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley
National Grid Reference:: SD 70849 37308

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 limited antiquarian investigation on the summit of the monument, the bowl barrow 170m north of Hacking Boat House survives reasonably well and remains a prominent earthwork. This investigation failed to locate evidence of interments or grave goods and suggests that undisturbed archaeological deposits will still remain within this large mound and upon the old landsurface beneath.

Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow located on the flood plain of the River Ribble 170m north east of Hacking Boat House. It includes an oval earthen mound up to 6m high with maximum dimensions of 44m NNW-SSE by 35m SSW-NNE. Limited antiquarian investigation on part of the monument's summit in 1894 failed to locate any archaeological deposits. Similar excavations on another similar mound to the north of this example did, however, locate burial remains. It is considered that the works on this site simply missed or failed to identify the archaeological remains.

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:: 23712
Legacy System:: RSM

Sources

Books and journals
Luck, J R, 'Trans Lancs and Chesh Antiq Soc.' in , , Vol. 12, (1895), 27-31
Other
Darvill, T, MPP Single Monument Class Descriptions - Bowl Barrows, (1989)
FMW Report, Capstick, B., SAM Record, (1988)
SMR No. 179, Ilse, P, Winkley Lowes 'Barrow' B, (1993)

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 Culture, Media and Sport.