Bowl barrow 300m NNE of Quarry Farm: part of the Redhill round barrow cemetery
List Entry Summary
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.
Name: Bowl barrow 300m NNE of Quarry Farm: part of the Redhill round barrow cemetery
List entry Number: 1011128
Location
The monument may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: North Somerset
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Wrington
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: Not applicable to this List entry.
Date first scheduled: 16-Mar-1994
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: RSM
UID: 22833
Asset Groupings
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List entry Description
Summary of Monument
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Reasons for Designation
Round barrow cemeteries date to the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC). They comprise
closely-spaced groups of up to 30 round barrows - rubble or earthen mounds
covering single or multiple burials. Most cemeteries developed over a
considerable period of time, often many centuries, and in some cases acted as
a focus for burials as late as the early medieval period. They exhibit
considerable diversity of burial rite, plan and form, frequently including
several different types of round barrow, occasionally associated with earlier
long barrows. Where large scale investigation has been undertaken around them,
contemporary or later "flat" burials between the barrow mounds have often been
revealed. Round barrow cemeteries occur across most of lowland Britain, with a
marked concentration in Wessex. In some cases, they are clustered around other
important contemporary monuments such as henges. Often occupying prominent
locations, they are a major historic element in the modern landscape, whilst
their diversity and their longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the variety of beliefs and social organisation amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving or partly-surviving examples are
considered worthy of protection.
The bowl barrow survives comparatively well and will contain archaeological
and environmental evidence relating to the monument and the landscape in which
it was constructed. The barrow forms an integral part of one of only three
round barrow cemeteries known in the county of Avon.
History
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Details
The monument includes a bowl barrow forming part of a wider round barrow
cemetery and situated on the north-facing slope of Redhill, 300m NNE of Quarry
Farm.
The barrow has a mound 12m wide and c.0.5m high surrounded by a ditch from
which material was quarried during its construction. This has become infilled
over the years but survives as a buried feature c.2m wide.
The monument is one of at least six barrows which originally formed the round
barrow cemetery at Redhill.
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.
Selected Sources
Other
Description of the barrow cemetery,
National Grid Reference: ST 50613 63916
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