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Bowl barrow 450m NNE of West Hill Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. The barrow takes the form of a simple hemispherical mound, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the Bronze Age period. Such monuments served as burial places for individuals of social significance within prehistoric communities and typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods. The barrow's survival as an upstanding earthwork contributes to the archaeological record of Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in the Dorset landscape.
Bowl barrow 450m NNE of West Hill Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013849. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 450m NNE of West Hill Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013849.
Bowl barrow 450m NNE of West Hill Farm 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 1013849.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow E of The Buildings (5 km), St Peter's Abbey (6.3 km), Two fishponds in Oddens Wood (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 450m NNE of West Hill Farm'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 450m NNE of West Hill Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.