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Bowl barrow 800m east of Gourd's Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. The barrow is a round mound characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice in southern Britain, typically dating to the period between approximately 2200 and 700 BCE. Such monuments served as the focal points for ritual burial activity and often contained inhumations or cremations accompanied by grave goods. The site's designation within the national heritage list reflects its archaeological significance as a surviving example of the Bronze Age barrow tradition in the Dorset landscape.
Bowl barrow 800m east of Gourd's Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013742. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 800m east of Gourd's Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013742.
Bowl barrow 800m east of Gourd's 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 1013742.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows in Hinton Bushes 810m north of Pimperne Long Barrow (8.3 km), Two Late Iron Age or Romano-British enclosed settlements with part of an associated field system 420m NNW of South Farm (8.6 km), Hod Hill camp and Lydsbury Rings (8.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 800m east of Gourd's Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow 800m east of Gourd's Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.