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Bowl barrow 550m north east of Pitcombe Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located within the Black Down round barrow cemetery in Dorset. The barrow consists of an earthen mound of typical bowl form, representing a burial practice common to the Bronze Age communities of southern England during the second millennium BC. It forms part of a significant concentration of round barrows on Black Down, a landscape that testifies to sustained mortuary practice and settlement activity across the Bronze Age period. The monument survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains archaeologically important for understanding regional patterns of Bronze Age burial and land use.
Bowl barrow 550m north east of Pitcombe Farm, part of the Black Down round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011694. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 550m north east of Pitcombe Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located within the Black Down round barrow cemetery in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011694.
Bowl barrow 550m north east of Pitcombe Farm, part of the Black Down round barrow cemetery 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 1011694.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two round barrows on Wears Hill (4.6 km), St Peter's Abbey (5.2 km), Round barrow E of The Buildings (5.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 550m north east of Pitcombe Farm, part of the Black Down round barrow cemetery'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 550m north east of Pitcombe Farm, part of the Black Down round barrow cemetery stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.