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Bell barrow on Grange Heath is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a round barrow cemetery in Dorset. The monument takes its name from its characteristic bell-shaped profile, with a central mound surrounded by a ditch and external bank. Located approximately 600 metres north of The Drinking Barrow, it represents one of several funerary monuments distributed across Grange Heath, indicating sustained use of the landscape for burial purposes during the Bronze Age. The barrow is a scheduled ancient monument, reflecting its archaeological significance as evidence of prehistoric burial practice and ritual landscape organisation in southern England.
Bell barrow on Grange Heath, 600m north of The Drinking Barrow, forming part of the Grange Heath round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014135. View the official record →
Bell barrow on Grange Heath is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a round barrow cemetery in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014135.
Bell barrow on Grange Heath, 600m north of The Drinking Barrow, forming part of the Grange Heath round barrow cemetery 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 1014135.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Harp Stone (3.5 km), Iron Age settlement and associated field system on Smedmore Hill (4.8 km), Alum works, other multi-period industrial remains and an associated group of jetties and breakwaters, Kimmeridge Bay (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bell barrow on Grange Heath, 600m north of The Drinking Barrow, forming part of the Grange Heath round barrow cemetery's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bell barrow on Grange Heath, 600m north of The Drinking Barrow, forming part of the Grange Heath round barrow cemetery stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.