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Bowl barrow 240m south of Oak Tree Farm is an outlying burial mound belonging to the Coombe Beacon barrow cemetery in Dorset. The monument dates to the Bronze Age and represents a characteristic example of the round burial mounds constructed during this period across southern England. As part of the wider barrow cemetery, it testifies to sustained ritual and funerary practice in this landscape during the second millennium before Christ. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument, registered on the National Heritage List for England.
Bowl barrow 240m south of Oak Tree Farm: an outlying barrow of the Coombe Beacon barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007692. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 240m south of Oak Tree Farm is an outlying burial mound belonging to the Coombe Beacon barrow cemetery in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007692.
Bowl barrow 240m south of Oak Tree Farm: an outlying barrow of the Coombe Beacon 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 1007692.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow cemetery south-east of East Lulworth 550m north-east of Monastery Farm (3.1 km), Round barrow on Boat Knoll (3.3 km), Flower's Barrow: a small multivallate hillfort and associated outwork on Rings Hill (4 km).
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Bowl barrow 240m south of Oak Tree Farm: an outlying barrow of the Coombe Beacon barrow cemetery stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.