Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated south-west of Beckingham Hall on
the floodplain of the River Blackwater. It survives as an earth mound
measuring 16m in diameter and c.2m in height. Although the barrow has been
eroded slightly on the north-west side, it has remained stable for the past 20
years and has therefore suffered no further damage. Although no longer
visible at ground level, a ditch from which material was excavated for the
construction of the monument, surrounds the barrow mound. This has become
infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature c.2m wide.

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 some erosion in the past and the levelling of the outer bank by
cultivation, the bowl barrow south-west of Beckingham Hall survives well and
contains archaeological remains and environmental evidence relating to the
monument and the landscape in which it was constructed. It is one of few such
monuments to survive as upstanding earthworks in this area of the country,
most having been levelled by cultivation.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
Information from Field Mounument Warden report (1990), (1990)

Source: Historic England