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A cross dyke and bowl barrow on the northern spur of Beacon Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Hampshire. The site comprises a bowl barrow, a characteristic round burial mound of the Bronze Age period, associated with a cross dyke, a linear earthwork that likely served a defensive or territorial function. The monument's position on the elevated northern spur of Beacon Hill reflects the typical Bronze Age practice of placing burial mounds in prominent landscape locations. As a scheduled ancient monument, the site remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age settlement patterns and burial practices in the Hampshire landscape.
A cross dyke and bowl barrow on the northern spur of Beacon Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012033. View the official record →
A cross dyke and bowl barrow on the northern spur of Beacon Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Hampshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012033.
A cross dyke and bowl barrow on the northern spur of Beacon Hill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1012033.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 100m east of Thorn Down: one of the group known as Seven Barrows (2.5 km), Earthworks in Danegrove Copse (3.4 km), Long barrow 580m south-west of Woodcott Church (4.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of A cross dyke and bowl barrow on the northern spur of Beacon Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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A cross dyke and bowl barrow on the northern spur of Beacon Hill stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.