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Bowl barrow 250m south of Plantation Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. The barrow survives as a earthen mound characteristic of the bowl barrow form, a common burial type across southern Britain during the Bronze Age period. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status and beliefs of their period. This example remains an important archaeological witness to Bronze Age mortuary practice and settlement patterns in the Dorset landscape.
Bowl barrow 250m south of Plantation Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015188. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 250m south of Plantation Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015188.
Bowl barrow 250m south of Plantation Farm 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 1015188.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows and a disc barrow 960m north west and a bowl barrow 880m north west of Crab Farm (8.8 km), Group of round barrows NW of Badbury Rings (9.1 km), Group of round barrows on King Down (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 250m south of Plantation Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 250m south of Plantation Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.