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Bowl barrow 610m east of Bere Heath Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. The barrow survives as a rounded earthwork mound characteristic of bowl barrow type, the simplest and most common form of prehistoric burial mound in southern England. Such monuments typically date from the Bronze Age, though some examples may be of earlier Neolithic origin, and were constructed to mark the burial of individuals or small family groups. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England and represents an important element of Dorset's rich archaeological landscape of prehistoric funerary monuments.
Bowl barrow 610m east of Bere Heath Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015365. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 610m east of Bere Heath 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 1015365.
Bowl barrow 610m east of Bere Heath 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 1015365.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 450m north-west of Rookery Cottages (9.4 km), Bowl barrow 250m north-west of Rookery Cottages (9.5 km), The northeastern of two bowl barrows in Burngate Wood, 250m south west of Limekiln Cottages (9.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 610m east of Bere Heath 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 610m east of Bere Heath Farm stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.