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Bowl barrow 550m north west of Cogden Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset. The barrow takes the form of a rounded mound characteristic of bowl barrows, a common burial type of the Bronze Age period. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials accompanied by grave goods, serving as focal points for ancestral commemoration within prehistoric communities. The barrow's survival as an earthwork demonstrates the preservation of Bronze Age mortuary practice in the landscape of Dorset.
Bowl barrow 550m north west of Cogden Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018201. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 550m north west of Cogden Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018201.
Bowl barrow 550m north west of Cogden Farm 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 1018201.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bind Barrow (0.8 km), Bowl barrow on Hammiton Hill 220m south west of Hammiton Farm (2.3 km), Bowl barrow on North Hill 750m north east of Marsh Barn (2.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 550m north west of Cogden Farm'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 west of Cogden Farm stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.