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Bowl barrow 400m north east of Manor Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Pound Hill round barrow cemetery in Dorset. The monument consists of a circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary monument type of the Bronze Age period. Its inclusion within the Pound Hill cemetery indicates it was part of a significant cluster of burial activity, demonstrating the importance of this landscape as a place of the dead during prehistory. The barrow survives as an archaeological resource, though its precise dimensions and state of preservation reflect both its age and the effects of agricultural use over subsequent millennia.
Bowl barrow 400m north east of Manor Farm, part of the Pound Hill round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011692. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 400m north east of Manor Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Pound Hill round barrow cemetery in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011692.
Bowl barrow 400m north east of Manor Farm, part of the Pound 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 1011692.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 720m south east of Friar Waddon House (5.9 km), Cross-ridge dyke on Windsbatch (6.7 km), Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 400m north east of Manor Farm, part of the Pound 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 400m north east of Manor Farm, part of the Pound Hill round barrow cemetery stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.