King’s Standing Bowl Barrow
King's Standing Bowl Barrow or Kingstanding Mound, is a scheduled monument in the Kingstanding area of Birmingham. It comprises the buried and earthwork remains of a bowl barrow from the late Neolithic to the late Bronze Age, lying alongside the Icknield Street Roman road to the South of Sutton Park.Photo: Adrian Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Scheduled Monument in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
- Also known as: “Bowl barrow at King’s Standing”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Perry Barr Reservoir and Kingsland Primary School (NC).
Perry Barr Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Perry Barr Reservoir is a covered drinking water reservoir, in north Birmingham, England, operated by Severn Trent Water. Built for the then Birmingham Corporation Water Department, on the site of the former Perry Barr Farm, it is not, despite its name, in the modern Perry Barr area, but nearby Kingstanding, at grid reference SP083951.
Kingsland Primary School (NC)
School
Photo: Andy Mabbett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kingsland Primary School (NC) is situated 1,200 feet west of King’s Standing Bowl Barrow.
St Mark’s Church, Kingstanding
Church
Photo: Andy Mabbett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Mark’s Church, Kingstanding is situated 1,600 feet southwest of King’s Standing Bowl Barrow.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingstanding and Pheasey.
Kingstanding
Suburb
Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kingstanding is an area in north Birmingham, England. It gives its name to a ward in the Erdington council constituency. Kingstanding ward includes the areas; Perry Common, Witton Lakes.
Pheasey
Suburb
Photo: Adrian Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pheasey is a residential area of Walsall Metropolitan Borough in the West Midlands of England, often considered to be part of Great Barr. The area was predominantly developed for housing, as the Pheasey Estate, in the 1930s, but work was not completed until after the Second World War. Barr Beacon, a hill, is a local landmark.
New Oscott
Suburb
Photo: ChrisTheDude, Public domain.
New Oscott is an area of Birmingham, England. It was named after the Oscott area of Birmingham, when St. Mary's College, the Roman Catholic seminary, moved from that site to the new one.
King’s Standing Bowl Barrow
- Categories: bowl barrow, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.55806° or 52° 33′ 29″ northLongitude
-1.88277° or 1° 52′ 58″ westOpen location code
9C4WH458+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 3039678530OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q6411111
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Perry Barr Reservoir and King George’s Field.
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