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Bowl barrow 355m 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 typical bowl barrow, characterized by a simple hemispherical mound of earth raised over a central burial, representing a funerary practice widespread across southern Britain during the Bronze Age. As a constituent element of a larger barrow cemetery, it demonstrates the clustering of burial monuments that often characterizes Bronze Age ritual landscapes. The barrow contributes to understanding prehistoric settlement patterns and burial practices in the Dorset landscape.
Bowl barrow 355m 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 1013263. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 355m 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 1013263.
Bowl barrow 355m 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 1013263.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow E of The Buildings (4.1 km), Two round barrows on Wears Hill (4.4 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 355m 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 355m 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.