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Bell barrow 900m north-west of Wilverley Post is a Bronze Age burial monument located in the New Forest area of Hampshire. The barrow takes the form of a bell-shaped mound with a surrounding ditch, a characteristic design of Bronze Age funerary practice in southern England, typically dating to the second millennium BCE. The monument survives as an upstanding earthwork within the New Forest landscape, representing an important example of prehistoric burial architecture in the region. Such barrows commonly contained inhumations or cremations accompanied by grave goods, though the specific contents of this particular example are not definitively documented in the accessible scholarly record.
Bell barrow 900m north-west of Wilverley Post is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012530. View the official record →
Bell barrow 900m north-west of Wilverley Post is a Bronze Age burial monument located in the New Forest area of Hampshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012530.
Bell barrow 900m north-west of Wilverley Post 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 1012530.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Wilverley Plain (2.6 km), Bowl barrow at Cross Ways, Thorney Hill (4.4 km), Bowl barrow 75m north of All Saints Church, Thorney Hill (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bell barrow 900m north-west of Wilverley Post's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bell barrow 900m north-west of Wilverley Post stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.