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Bowl barrow 800m south of Kingston Russell Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the round barrow cemetery on the south western part of Black Down in Dorset. The barrow is of bowl form, a common type of round barrow characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice in southern England. It stands within a significant concentration of burial monuments on Black Down, reflecting the intensive ritual and ceremonial use of this upland location during prehistory. The monument survives as an earthwork and contributes to the archaeological landscape of this important barrow cemetery in the Wessex region.
Bowl barrow 800m south of Kingston Russell Farm, 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 1013844. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 800m south of Kingston Russell Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the round barrow cemetery on the south western part of Black Down in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013844.
Bowl barrow 800m south of Kingston Russell Farm, 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 1013844.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Four bowl barrows 725m ESE of Wears Farm (4.4 km), Two round barrows on Wears Hill (4.8 km), St Peter's Abbey (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 800m south of Kingston Russell Farm, 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:
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Bowl barrow 800m south of Kingston Russell Farm, 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.