Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow in Easneye Wood situated on a north-west
facing slope overlooking the River Ash. It is visible as an earthen mound
which measures 20m in diameter and c.3m in height. Although no longer visible
at ground level, a ditch, from which material was excavated during the
construction of the monument, surrounds the mound. This has become infilled
over the years but survives as a buried feature c.2m wide. In 1899 J Evans
carried out a small excavation which revealed a cremation burial without any
grave goods.

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.

Despite limited excavation, the bowl barrow in Easneye Wood is well preserved
and will retain archaeological information and environmental evidence relating
to the monument and the landscape in which it was constructed.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
Information from NAR (No TL 31 SE 17),

Source: Historic England