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Wellhill Copse round barrow

A Scheduled Monument in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7336 / 51°44'1"N

Longitude: -2.005 / 2°0'18"W

OS Eastings: 399749.848008

OS Northings: 203879.098826

OS Grid: SO997038

Mapcode National: GBR 2PC.9WT

Mapcode Global: VHB2J.6PDC

Entry Name: Wellhill Copse round barrow

Scheduled Date: 17 January 1949

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1003417

English Heritage Legacy ID: GC 267

County: Gloucestershire

Civil Parish: Daglingworth

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire

Church of England Parish: Stratton St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Gloucester

Summary

Bowl barrow 540m north east of Upper Field Barn.

Source: Historic England

Details

This record was the subject of a minor enhancement on 24 September 2015. The record has been generated from an "old county number" (OCN) scheduling record. These are monuments that were not reviewed under the Monuments Protection Programme and are some of our oldest designation records.

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on the undulating plateau of the Cotswold Hills overlooking the upper valley of the Daglingworth Stream. The barrow survives as a circular stone rich mound measuring up to 30m in diameter and 1.3m high surrounded by a buried quarry ditch from which the construction material was derived and which some aerial photographs suggest might be a double ditch. An inhumation was reported as having originated from this barrow in 1868.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

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. 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.

Despite reduction in the height of the mound through past cultivation the bowl barrow 540m north east of Upper Field Barn survives comparatively well and will contain archaeological and environmental evidence relating to its construction, longevity, territorial significance, social organisation, funerary and ritual practices and overall landscape context.

Source: Historic England

Sources

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PastScape 117252

Source: Historic England

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