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Bowl barrow 470m WNW of Peaked Close House is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common in Dorset. The barrow is of bowl form, a characteristic earthwork type of the Early to Middle Bronze Age, and represents one of several funerary structures distributed across the common landscape. This site, listed on the National Heritage List for England under reference 1011488, demonstrates the ritual and settlement patterns of Bronze Age communities in the Dorset heathlands. The barrow cemetery reflects the practice of successive burial and territorial demarcation characteristic of Bronze Age societies in southern Britain.
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 monument forming part of a 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).
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