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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 500m south-south-west of Home Farm

List entry Number: 1007386

Location

The monument may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Cheshire East	Unitary Authority	Lower Withington

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: Not applicable to this List entry.

Date first scheduled: 20-Oct-1993

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

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

Legacy System: RSM

UID: 22585

Asset Groupings

This list entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information.

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 monument survives well and is a rare example in Cheshire of a bowl barrow originally constructed in Neolithic times and re-used during the Bronze Age. Limited 19th and 20th century excavation of the monument's centre located human remains, pottery and stone artefacts, and further evidence of interments and grave goods will exist within the mound and upon the old landsurface beneath.

History

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Details

The monument is a bowl barrow located on flat land 500m south of Home Farm. It includes an oval turf mound up to 1m high with maximum dimensions of 35m by 31m. Limited antiquarian investigation at the centre of the barrow located an urn containing human remains. The central area was re-excavated in 1982/3 and revealed the monument to be of two phases. In the latter phase two pits had been cut into the subsoil and each surrounded by a ring of stakeholes. Radio carbon dating of material from one of the stakeholes dated this to around 900 BC. Backfill from the antiquarian investigation produced a volume of finds including substantial remains of 6 decorated pots, a barbed and tanged flint arrowhead and a trimming flake from a Neolithic polished axe.

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

1. Book  Reference - Author: Darvill, T - Title: MPP Single Monument Class Descriptions - Bowl Barrows - Date: 1988 - Page References: 7 - Type: DESC TEXT
2. Book  Reference - Author: Longley,D. - Title: Prehistoric Sites in Cheshire - Date: 1979 - Page References: 33 - Type: DESC TEXT
3. Book  Reference - Author: Wilson,D. (Site excavator) - Date: 1986 - Type: PERS COMM - Description: To SMR

National Grid Reference: SJ 80686 72209

Map

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