Harries Collin Bowen, OBE, FSA (5 December 1919 – 25 October 2011) was a Welsh archaeologist and landscape historian.
He served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, British Army during the Second World War, and then studied history at Merton College, Oxford.
Bowen was born on 5 December 1919, and was educated at Christ College, a private school in Brecon, Wales.
He studied modern history at Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1948.
He then moved to recording the Iron Age and Roman Cotswolds, analysing the Bokerley Dyke of the Hampshire-Dorset border, and studying the river gravels of England.