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Bowl barrow 570m south of Plantation Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. The barrow survives as a earthen mound of circular plan, characteristic of bowl barrow monuments of the prehistoric period. Such monuments served as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains and represent significant centres of ritual and commemorative activity within their local communities. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England and contributes to the archaeological record of Dorset's prehistoric landscape.
Bowl barrow 570m south of Plantation Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015189. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 570m south of Plantation Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015189.
Bowl barrow 570m south of Plantation 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 1015189.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of round barrows NW of Badbury Rings (8.7 km), Group of round barrows on King Down (8.8 km), Straw Barrow (8.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 570m south of Plantation 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 570m south of Plantation Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.