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
Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...
to the South of
Sutton Park.
It is reputedly the site from where
King Charles I reviewed his troops on 18 October 1642, during the
English Civil War; from which event both the mound and the area take their name.
References
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Scheduled monuments in the West Midlands (county)
Kingstanding
Barrows in the United Kingdom