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Bowl barrow 25m north west of Stapehill Village Hall is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. The barrow survives as a substantial earthwork mound of characteristic bowl form, which represents the typical funerary architecture of the Bronze Age period. Such monuments commonly contained cremated or inhumed remains, often accompanied by grave goods, and served as focal points for early Bronze Age communities. The survival of this barrow as an upstanding earthwork preserves important archaeological evidence of prehistoric ritual practice and settlement patterns in the Dorset landscape.
Bowl barrow 25m north west of Stapehill Village Hall is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015789. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 25m north west of Stapehill Village Hall is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015789.
Bowl barrow 25m north west of Stapehill Village Hall 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 1015789.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Canford Heath 300m east of Alhambra (4.1 km), Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation, 340m north of Arrowsmith House (4.2 km), Bowl barrow on Knighton Heath Golf Course 320m south of Eastlands Farm (4.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 25m north west of Stapehill Village Hall'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 25m north west of Stapehill Village Hall stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.