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Bowl barrow 600m south of Plantation Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset. The monument consists of a circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrow construction, a common funerary form in southern Britain during the Bronze Age period. Such barrows typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods, and served as focal points for ritual activity and landscape marking. This example contributes to the dispersed pattern of Bronze Age funerary monuments found across the Dorset downlands.
Bowl barrow 600m south of Plantation Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015190. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 600m south of Plantation Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015190.
Bowl barrow 600m 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 1015190.
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 (8.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 600m 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 600m south of Plantation Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.