Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated 910m north east of Seagram's Barn
on Cold Kitchen Hill, a chalk ridge on the northern side of the Wylye Valley
commanding extensive views to the south and north east.
The barrow comprises a mound 13m in diameter and 0.25m high, surrounded by a
ditch from which material was quarried during its construction. This has
become infilled over the years and survives as a buried feature 3m wide.
An additional bowl barrow to the west and a long barrow to the north are the
subject of separate schedulings.

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 having been spread by ploughing, the barrow 910m north east of
Seagram's Barn will contain archaeological remains and environmental evidence
relating to the monument and to 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), 162

Source: Historic England