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Bowl barrow 300m WNW of White Hill Barn is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the White Hill round barrow cemetery in Dorset. The monument belongs to the round barrow tradition characteristic of the Bronze Age, when such earthen mounds were constructed as sepulchral monuments across southern Britain. As a bowl barrow, it exhibits the characteristic shallow, rounded mound form typical of this barrow class. The White Hill cemetery represents a significant concentration of Bronze Age funerary activity, with this barrow contributing to the archaeological evidence of prehistoric settlement and ritual practice in the region.
Bowl barrow 300m WNW of White Hill Barn, forming part of the White Hill round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013262. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 300m WNW of White Hill Barn is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the White Hill round barrow cemetery in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013262.
Bowl barrow 300m WNW of White Hill Barn, forming part of the White Hill 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 1013262.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow E of The Buildings (4 km), Two round barrows on Wears Hill (4.3 km), St Peter's Abbey (4.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 300m WNW of White Hill Barn, forming part of the White Hill 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.
Bowl barrow 300m WNW of White Hill Barn, forming part of the White Hill round barrow cemetery stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.