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Bowl barrow 650m south west of Gorcombe Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, England. The monument consists of a simple hemispherical earthwork typical of bowl barrows, a form of round barrow commonly constructed during the Bronze Age for elite or important burials. Such barrows were frequently built on elevated ground across southern England and often contained cremated or inhumed human remains, sometimes accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status of the deceased. The barrow's survival as an upstanding earthwork demonstrates the persistence of Bronze Age funerary monuments across the English landscape, despite millennia of agricultural use and natural erosion.
Bowl barrow 650m south west of Gorcombe Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014849. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 650m south west of Gorcombe Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014849.
Bowl barrow 650m south west of Gorcombe 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 1014849.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Hundred Barrow, a bowl barrow 350m south west of Chalk Pit Farm (8.8 km), Bell barrow on Blackhill Clump 470m north of Mintern's Ferry (9 km), Bowl barrow in Morden Park 350m south west of Hunting Bridge (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 650m south west of Gorcombe 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 650m south west of Gorcombe Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.