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Bowl barrow 340m north west of White Hill Barn is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the White Hill round barrow cemetery in Dorset. The monument is a simple bowl-shaped earthwork, the most basic form of round barrow, constructed during the Bronze Age period as a burial monument for interred remains. Its location within the larger cemetery indicates a significant Bronze Age settlement or ritual landscape, with multiple barrows often clustered in areas of particular importance to prehistoric communities. The site remains archaeologically important as evidence of Bronze Age funerary practices and settlement patterns in Dorset.
Bowl barrow 340m north west of White Hill Barn, forming part of the White Hill round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013264. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 340m north west 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 1013264.
Bowl barrow 340m north west 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 1013264.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow E of The Buildings (4.1 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 340m north west 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 340m north west 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.