Details

Meadow Place bowl barrow is a roughly circular barrow situated west of
Lathkill Dale on the limestone plateau of Derbyshire. The monument includes a
mound measuring 16m by 15m and standing c.0.75m high. Originally it would have
been somewhat higher, but its profile has been altered by past ploughing. A
partial excavation carried out by Thomas Bateman in 1848 revealed the
disturbed remains of two human burials, of which one may have been a
cremation, a bone point and a number of flint artefacts. These remains
indicate a Bronze Age date for the barrow.

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.

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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.

Although Meadow Place bowl barrow has been disturbed by excavation and earlier
agricultural practice, it nonetheless survives well and retains further
significant archaeological remains.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Books and journals
Barnatt, J, The Peak District Barrow Survey (1989), (1989)
Barnatt, J, The Peak District Barrow Survey (1989), (1989)
Bateman, T, Ten Years Diggings in Celtic and Saxon Grave-Hills, (1861), 44
Marsden, B M, The Burial Mounds of Derbyshire , (1977), 82

Source: Historic England