<< Our Photo Pages >> Bowl and Bell Barrow - Barrow Cemetery in England in Wiltshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bowl and Bell Barrow Alternative Name: Bowl and Bell barrows Fargo PlantationCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Amesbury Nearest Village: Larkhill
Map Ref: SU11454270
Latitude: 51.183417N Longitude: 1.837563W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Two Barrows in close proximity to each other, just south of the Stonehenge Cursus and both monuments form part of the Cursus round barrow cemetery. which contains 16 round barrows in all, including seven bowl barrows, six bell barrows, a twin bell barrow and a disc barrow.
The closest to Fargo plantation being a Bell barrow and the other the more common Bowl Barrow type.
The Bell barrow has a mound 35m in diameter and 1.5m high, surrounded by a berm which is no longer visible, and a ditch 4m wide and 0.2m deep, giving an overall diameter of 43m. The ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument, is most obvious on the west of the mound but difficult to distinguish elsewhere. It does, however, survive as a buried feature. Partial excavation in the 19th century revealed a primary inhumation with a beaker and two secondary inhumations. Further partial excavation in 1960 revealed evidence of a berm surrounding the central mound and finds which included decayed leather, and a contracted inhumation burial lying beneath a tapered board and accompanied by a long-necked beaker and various implements. The ditch silt contained a bell beaker and another contracted inhumation. Fragments of blue-stone were also found.
The Bowl Barrow has a mound is 25m in diameter and 1.75m high, surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during its construction. This is now difficult to identify on the ground but is represented on the OS 1:2500 scale map of 1972 from which it is calculated to be 2.5m wide, giving an overall diameter of 30m.
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