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Laycock Dairy Farm Bowl Barrow is a scheduled monument located on the Dorset chalklands approximately 75 metres south-east of Laycock Dairy Farm. The barrow sits on White Chalk Subgroup bedrock, geology characteristic of this upland region and typical of Bronze Age burial sites in the area. The monument is protected by Historic England under scheduled reference 1017265.
Bowl barrows represent the most common form of Bronze Age burial mound in southern Britain, typically constructed over cremated or inhumed remains during the second millennium before Christ. The barrow at Laycock Dairy Farm occupies a scheduled area of 0.06 hectares, a modest footprint reflecting the generally small size of such monuments. The chalk bedrock would have provided suitable material for construction and the high ground suitable visibility within the landscape.
The monument survives as an earthwork feature within its protected landscape boundary. Like other Bronze Age barrows on the Dorset chalk, it forms part of a wider pattern of funerary monuments that collectively demonstrate the burial practices and land use of Bronze Age communities. Its scheduling ensures that archaeological evidence within and around the barrow remains subject to statutory protection and cannot be disturbed without consent.
Bowl barrow 75m south east of Laycock Dairy Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017265. View the official record →
Laycock Dairy Farm Bowl Barrow is a scheduled monument located on the Dorset chalklands approximately 75 metres south-east of Laycock Dairy Farm. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017265.
Bowl barrow 75m south east of Laycock Dairy 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 1017265.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Barrows in Came Wood (9.6 km), Culliford Tree long barrow and group of round barrows (9.7 km), Six round barrows on Bincombe Down (9.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 75m south east of Laycock Dairy 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 75m south east of Laycock Dairy Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.