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Bowl barrow 570m south east of Heatherdown is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. The site consists of a circular earthwork mound characteristic of bowl barrows, a common burial form in southern England during the third and second millennia before the Common Era. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status and beliefs of their period. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains an important example of prehistoric funerary practice in the Dorset landscape.
Bowl barrow 570m south east of Heatherdown is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020736. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 570m south east of Heatherdown is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020736.
Bowl barrow 570m south east of Heatherdown 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 1020736.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The southwestern of two bowl barrows in Burngate Wood; 320m south west of Limekiln Cottages (9 km), Bowl barrow 650m south east of Belhuish Farm: one of a group of barrows to the west of Burngate Wood (9.4 km), Bowl barrow 1000m SSE of Belhuish Farm: one of a group of barrows to the west of Burngate Wood (9.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 570m south east of Heatherdown'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 570m south east of Heatherdown stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.