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A bowl barrow is a simple type of burial mound consisting of a roughly hemispherical mound of turf, earth and deposited bedrock over a central primary burial, either in a pit or in some kind of stone or wooden cist
Prehistoric chamber used to contain the bodies of the dead..[1] Sometimes also called tumuli, bowl barrows may have a surrounding ditch and occasionally an outer bank. They vary considerably in size, the largest of them more than 40 metres (131 ft) in diameter and up to 4 metres (13 ft) high.[2]
Bowl barrows are found widely over northwestern Europe from the Neolithic period onwards,[a]In the British Isles, the Neolithic period lasted from about 5000 to 2400 BCE.[3] but they are especially common in the late 3rd and early 2nd millennia BCE.[1]