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Bowl barrow 1120m WNW of Peaked Close House is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common in Dorset. The monument is a simple bowl barrow, a common funerary structure of the Bronze Age period, and represents one of several similar earthworks scattered across the common landscape. Its survival as an upstanding archaeological feature contributes to understanding the burial practices and settlement patterns of Bronze Age communities in the Purbeck area. The barrow is recorded in the National Heritage List for England under entry number 1011494.
Bowl barrow 1120m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011494. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 1120m WNW of Peaked Close House is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011494.
Bowl barrow 1120m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common 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 1011494.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 350m and 410m south of Afflington Barn (2.5 km), Iron Age settlement and associated field system on Smedmore Hill (2.5 km), Bowl barrow 760m south west of Afflington Barn (2.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 1120m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common'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.
Bowl barrow 1120m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common stands on Wealden Group, bedrock that formed in the Barremian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.