Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow which is visible as an earthen mound
standing to a maximum height of 1.3m and covering an area 25m in diameter.
There is no visible trace on the ground surface of a ditch encircling the
mound, although the ditch probably exists as a buried feature.

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.

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. 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 barrow 625m south of Lux Farm survives well and there appears to have been
little disturbance of deposits in the mound. Evidence of the manner in which
the barrow was constructed and used, of the duration of its use, and of the
local environment at the time of and prior to its construction, will be
preserved in the mound and in the soils buried beneath it. The monument is one
of three barrows surviving within a distance of less than 300m.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
Robertson-Mackay, R, AM7, (1959)

Source: Historic England