6-541: Brown Low is a bowl barrow most likely dating to the Bronze Age . An earth and stone mound survives east of Marple , Greater Manchester ( grid reference SJ98829092 ). It is listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument . The mound was partially excavated by the Rev William Marriott in 1809, who discovered fragments of burnt stones and cremated bones, as well as a preserved acorn. Marriott also describes
12-594: Is a type of burial mound or tumulus . A barrow is a mound of earth used to cover a tomb. The bowl barrow gets its name from its resemblance to an upturned bowl. Related terms include cairn circle , cairn ring , howe , kerb cairn , tump and rotunda grave . Bowl barrows were created from the Neolithic through to the Bronze Age in Great Britain . A bowl barrow is an approximately hemispherical mound covering one or more Inhumations or cremations . Where
18-448: The finding of a funerary urn in an adjacent barrow during an unauthorised excavation. Brown Low is on private land, just east of a public footpath running off Sandy Lane. 53°24′54″N 2°01′10″W / 53.41509°N 2.019397°W / 53.41509; -2.019397 This article about a Greater Manchester building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bowl barrow A bowl barrow
24-473: The most popular sites were those on hilltops. Bowl barrows were first identified in Great Britain by John Thurnam (1810–73), an English psychiatrist , archaeologist , and ethnologist . English Heritage proposed the following classification of British bowl barrows: Tump is Worcestershire dialect term for a small hill, such as a barrow, even a large barrow such as the Whittington Tump in
30-424: 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
36-613: The village of Whittington south east of Worcester, or an "unty tump" meaning mole hill (unty being Worcestershire dialect for a mole ). It is related to the Welsh language term Twmpath which was once applied to the mound or village green. From a short list of tumps , it can be seen that the term is used extensively in the Welsh Marches and its use extends beyond that, to Somerset , Wiltshire , Oxfordshire , and Buckinghamshire . This article relating to archaeology in
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