Bowl barrow 400m southeast of Wellington Farm
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 400m southeast of Wellington Farm
List entry Number: 1011533
Location
The monument may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Somerset
District: Sedgemoor
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Cheddar
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: Not applicable to this List entry.
Date first scheduled: 19-Dec-1929
Date of most recent amendment: 12-Aug-1993
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: RSM
UID: 13933
Asset Groupings
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List entry Description
Summary of Monument
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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.
The bowl barrow 400m southeast of Wellington Farm survives comparatively well
and, despite areas of localised disturbance caused by Shelley's partial
excavation in 1904, contains archaeological and environmental evidence
relating both to the monument and the landscape in which it was constructed.
The monument survives in an area which contains a concentration of
contemporary burial monuments, thus giving an indication of the nature and
scale of human occupation during the Bronze Age period.
History
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Details
The monument includes a bowl barrow located on level ground 400m southeast of
Wellington Farm. It is visible as a mound 18m in diameter and c.1m high at
its highest point. Although no longer visible at ground level, a ditch, from
which material was quarried during the construction of the monument, surrounds
the mound. This has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried
feature c.3m wide.
The site is thought to be that which was partially excavated by A Shelley in
1904. Finds from the excavation included two amber beads and a flint
arrowhead.
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
Books and journals
Grinsell, L, 'Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeology and Natural Hist Soc' in Somerset Barrows Part II, , Vol. Vol 115, (1971), p. 97
Tratman, E K, 'University of Bristol Speleological Society' in Barrow Catalogue, ()
Tratman, E K, 'Proceedings of the Univ of Bristol Speleological Society' in Fieldwork , , Vol. Vol 5(1), (1938), p. 82
National Grid Reference: ST 49457 53390
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