Scheduled Ancient Monument: BOWL BARROW KNOWN AS HOW HILL, EAST OF HERONFIELD BELT (31094)

The monument includes a bowl barrow and is situated on a west facing slope immediately to the north of the A11 trunk road. The barrow is visible as an earthen mound, standing to a height of approximately 2.6m with a maximum diameter of 35m. A hollow on the eastern side of the mound, measuring about 10m wide at the base by 5m wide at the top and approximately 1m deep, is thought to be the result of an unrecorded antiquarian excavation. A letter from W G Clarke to Cyril Fox, dated 1923, states that `a cinerary urn has been found there and broken up'. It is thought that the mound is encircled by a ditch from which earth was quarried during the construction of the barrow, and although this has now become completely infilled and is no longer visible, it will survive as a buried feature 3m wide. The fence on the south side of the monument is excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath it is included.