What is a Bowl Barrow.
Bowl barrows were created from the Neolithic through to the Bronzeage in Great Britain. A bowl barrow is an approximately hemispherical mound covering one or more Burials or Cremations. Where the mound is composed entirely of stone, rather than earth, the term Cairn replaces the word barrow. The mound may be simply a mass of earth or stone, or it may be structured by concentric rings of posts, low stone walls, or upright stone slabs. In addition, the mound may have a kerb of stones or wooden posts.
Barrows were usually built in isolation in various situations on plains, valleys and hill slopes, although the most popular sites were those on hilltop. Bowl barrows were first identified in Great Britain by John Thurman (1810–73), an English Psychiatrist Archaeologist and ethnologist.
Boughton Bowl Barrow.
I first became aware of this little gem after recently moving to Kingsthorpe in Northampton. Boughton is known to have been settled prior to the Anglo-Saxon era with evidence of both Prehistoric and Roman settlements close to the modern centre of the village and in the surrounding area. A Bronze Age bowl barrow (a prehistoric funerary monument) has been found to the west of Harborough Road. Archaeological finds in the south of the adjacent field have yielded both pottery and worked flints of Bronze Age type. Boughton is a pretty little village just a short walk from where I live, and the Barrow is very close by its in a small field surrounded by a wooden fence and covered in trees and foliage, there's not much to see here at first, but if you get closer, the Bronze Age bowl barrow can be clearly seen rising to a height of about 2 m.
I would say the the diameter of the mound is around 20 meters,It is surrounded by a 2 meter ditch around it or should I say was, the ditch has partly been filled by other debris stones leaves.
Site Name: Boughton Bowl Barrow
Country: England County: Northamptonshire Type: Bowl Barrow
Nearest Village: Boughton
Map Ref: SP74706589
Latitude: 52.286081N Longitude: 0.906323W
