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Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset. The monument consists of a circular earthwork typical of bowl barrows, a common funerary form across southern England during the Bronze Age period. Such barrows commonly contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status and beliefs of Bronze Age communities. The barrow's preservation as a scheduled monument reflects its archaeological significance as a record of prehistoric ritual practice and settlement patterns in Dorset.
Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016278. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016278.
Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House 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 1016278.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Kerbed cairn 590m south east of Poxwell Manor (8.2 km), Four barrows on Moigns Down (8.2 km), Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields (8.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House'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 north west of Duck Dairy House stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.