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Bowl barrow 1km south-east of New Barn Farm

A Scheduled Monument in Newport, Isle of Wight

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.6758 / 50°40'32"N

Longitude: -1.3793 / 1°22'45"W

OS Eastings: 443954.587377

OS Northings: 86420.470594

OS Grid: SZ439864

Mapcode National: GBR 8BM.D45

Mapcode Global: FRA 8709.0H2

Entry Name: Bowl barrow 1km south-east of New Barn Farm

Scheduled Date: 30 January 1980

Last Amended: 17 January 1992

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1010512

English Heritage Legacy ID: 12337

County: Isle of Wight

Civil Parish: Newport

Traditional County: Hampshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Isle of Wight

Church of England Parish: Calbourne All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Portsmouth

Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow set below the crest of a north-facing
slope. The barrow mound is 38m in diameter and 1m high. Although no longer
visible at ground level a ditch, from which material was quarried during
construction of the monument, surrounds the mound. This has become infilled
over the years but survives as a buried feature c.3m 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.

Source: Historic England

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