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Latitude: 51.2032 / 51°12'11"N
Longitude: -1.7361 / 1°44'9"W
OS Eastings: 418533.129313
OS Northings: 144922.930254
OS Grid: SU185449
Mapcode National: GBR 4ZR.KVY
Mapcode Global: VHB5C.V0KY
Entry Name: Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows east of Carter Barracks
Scheduled Date: 2 November 1970
Last Amended: 1 February 1990
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1009567
English Heritage Legacy ID: 10146
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Bulford
Built-Up Area: Bulford Camp
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Bulford St Leonard
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
A bowl barrow now c.19m diameter, but probably originally c.21m diameter.
Although it has been ploughed in the past it is a fairly obvious mound now in
rough grass. There is no sign of any military or animal damage.
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
The most complete and extensive survival of chalk downland
archaeological remains in central southern England occurs on Salisbury
Plain, particularly in those areas lying within the Salisbury Plain
Training Area. These remains represent one of the few extant
archaeological "landscapes" in Britain and are considered to be of
special significance because they differ in character from those in
other areas with comparable levels of preservation. Individual sites on
Salisbury Plain are seen as being additionally important because the
evidence of their direct association with each other survives so well.
Some 470 round barrows, funerary monuments dating to the late Neolithic
and early Bronze Age, are known to have existed in the Salisbury Plain
Training Area, many grouped together as cemeteries. The total includes
some 70 barrows of rare types. Such is the quality of the survival of
the archaeological landscape, over 300 of these barrows have been
identified as nationally important.
Source: Historic England
Other
Trust for Wessex Archaeology, (1987)
Wiltshire Library & Museum Service, (1987)
Source: Historic England
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