Bowl barrow 650m north-east of Little Dilton Farm forming part of Beaulieu Airfield round barrow cemetery

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 650m north-east of Little Dilton Farm is a prehistoric burial mound forming part of the Beaulieu Airfield round barrow cemetery in Hampshire. The monument dates to the Bronze Age and represents a common funerary monument type of that period, constructed as a simple earthen mound raised over a cremation or inhumation burial. As part of a larger cemetery grouping, it demonstrates the concentrated ritual use of this landscape for burial practices during the Bronze Age. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork, though like many such monuments its original dimensions and internal structural details have been subject to gradual erosion and modification over millennia.

Bowl barrow 650m north-east of Little Dilton Farm forming part of Beaulieu Airfield round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010375. View the official record →

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