Details

The monument includes two bowl barrows 280m north of Clyffe House.
The western barrow has a mound previously recorded as being 16m in diameter
and 0.6m high. About 20m to the south east the second barrow has a mound, 13m
in diameter and 1.2m high, surrounded at a distance of some 3m from the base
of the mound, by a vague bank which encloses an area approximately 20m in
diameter. Taylor's map of 1770 depicts these barrows as small rings enclosing
trees and marked as plantation, suggesting that the bank is almost certainly a
tree planting ring of relatively recent date. Both barrows are surrounded by
quarry ditches from which material was excavated during their construction.
These have become infilled over the years but survive as buried features
about 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.

The bowl barrows 280m north of Clyffe House are well preserved examples of
their class and will contain archaeological remains providing information
about Bronze Age burial practices, economy and environment.

Source: Historic England