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Bowl barrow 770m north of Whatcombe House is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the south western slopes of Black Down in Dorset. It forms part of a substantial round barrow cemetery that demonstrates the concentrated ritual use of this elevated landscape during the second millennium before Christ. The barrow survives as a prominent earthwork with the characteristic bowl-shaped mound form that defines its type, representing a burial practice typical of early Bronze Age communities in southern England.
Bowl barrow 770m north of Whatcombe House, forming part of the round barrow cemetery on the south western part of Black Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013840. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 770m north of Whatcombe House is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the south western slopes of Black Down in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013840.
Bowl barrow 770m north of Whatcombe House, forming part of the round barrow cemetery on the south western part of Black Down 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 1013840.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Four bowl barrows 725m ESE of Wears Farm (4.2 km), Two round barrows on Wears Hill (4.6 km), St Peter's Abbey (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 770m north of Whatcombe House, forming part of the round barrow cemetery on the south western part of Black Down'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 770m north of Whatcombe House, forming part of the round barrow cemetery on the south western part of Black Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.