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Bowl barrow 470m WNW of Peaked Close House is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common in Dorset. The monument consists of a simple bowl-shaped mound characteristic of Early Bronze Age funerary practice, likely dating to between approximately 2200 and 1500 BCE. Its location within the wider barrow cemetery demonstrates the concentrated ritual and burial activity that occurred across Corfe Common during the Bronze Age, reflecting the importance of this landscape for prehistoric communities. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument and is legally protected as a scheduled ancient monument under the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects Act.
Bowl barrow 470m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011488. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 470m WNW of Peaked Close House is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011488.
Bowl barrow 470m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common 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 1011488.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 350m and 410m south of Afflington Barn (2.2 km), Bowl barrow 760m south west of Afflington Barn (2.4 km), Kingston Down Romano-British farm (2.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 470m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 470m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common stands on Wealden Group, bedrock that formed in the Barremian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.