Bowl barrow 500m west of Worgret Manor Farm, forming an outlier of the Worgret Heath round barrow cemetery

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 500m west of Worgret Manor Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Worgret Heath in Dorset. The barrow forms a satellite feature of the larger Worgret Heath round barrow cemetery, representing the dispersed burial practices characteristic of the Bronze Age landscape in this region. As a bowl barrow, it comprises a simple mounded earthwork without a surrounding ditch, typical of smaller Bronze Age burial monuments. The monument's designation as an outlier of the main cemetery group indicates its position within a broader pattern of mortuary activity on the heath, contributing to understanding of Bronze Age settlement and ritual behaviour in Dorset.

Bowl barrow 500m west of Worgret Manor Farm, forming an outlier of the Worgret Heath round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014288. View the official record →

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