Details

The monument includes one of a pair of bowl barrows situated 670m SSE of
Kingston Dairy on the summit of King's Hill, a ridge of Middle Chalk south of
the upper reaches of the Wylye valley.
The mound of the barrow is 0.4m high and 20m in diameter, having been spread
by ploughing. A dark ring of soil, visible on aerial photographs indicates a
ditch from which material was quarried during its construction. This has
become infilled over the years and survives as a buried feature 5m 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.

Although it has been spread by ploughing, the bowl barrow 670m SSE of Kingston
Dairy survives as a combination of extant and buried remains and will contain
archaeological and environmental evidence relating to the monument and the
landscape in which it was constructed.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Books and journals
Grinsell, L V, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1957)

Source: Historic England