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Bowl barrow 360m south of Compton Barn is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. The barrow takes the form of a simple earthen mound characteristic of prehistoric burial practices in southern Britain, constructed to mark and contain inhumation burials. Such monuments represent significant evidence for Early and Middle Bronze Age mortuary customs and the development of ritual landscape use in the county. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under reference 1019741.
Bowl barrow 360m south of Compton Barn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019741. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 360m south of Compton Barn is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019741.
Bowl barrow 360m south of Compton Barn 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 1019741.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of five round barrows on White Hill (6.9 km), Four bowl barrows 725m ESE of Wears Farm (7 km), Two round barrows on Wears Hill (7.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 360m south of Compton Barn'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 360m south of Compton Barn stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.