Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated in Luccombe Bottom, a small dry
valley cut into Lower Chalk on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain south of
the village of Edington.
The barrow lies on a slight south west facing slope at the head of the steep
sided valley. The mound of the barrow is 12.1m in diameter and 1.2m high.
There is a small depression on its north west side interpreted as evidence of
chalk digging or an early attempt at excavation. The mound is surrounded by a
ditch 3.5m wide and 0.5m deep from which material was quarried during its
construction.
Two other bowl barrows also in Luccombe Bottom are the subject of separate
schedulings (SM 31697 and SM 31698).

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.

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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 some evidence for disturbance the bowl barrow 640m south east of
Greater Lane Farm is a well preserved example of its class and will contain
archaeological and environmental evidence relating to both the landscape and
burial practice in the later prehistoric period. The position of the barrow at
the base of the valley is unusual for this type of monument.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Books and journals
Grinsell, L V, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1957), 174

Source: Historic England