What is recorded here
The National Heritage List for England records Bowl barrow on Sheep Down, 600m east of Home Farm Cottages as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Bowl barrow on Sheep Down, 600m east of Home Farm Cottages is a Neolithic burial mound, typically dating to between 3000 and 2500 BCE. Bowl barrows are significant as early funerary monuments, often associated with single interments and representing some of the earliest forms of ceremonial earthworks in southern Britain.
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