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Bowl barrow 800m SSE of Brooks Farm on Bell Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated in Dorset. The barrow takes the form of a simple earthen mound characteristic of burial practices during the Bronze Age period, when such structures served as prominent markers for elite and community burials across southern England. Its location on Bell Hill places it within a landscape that would have contained multiple contemporary burial monuments, typical of Bronze Age settlement and ceremonial patterns in the region. The monument survives as an archaeological feature of significance for understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices and the use of high ground for ritual and burial purposes in Dorset.
Bowl barrow 800m SSE of Brooks Farm on Bell Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013750. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 800m SSE of Brooks Farm on Bell Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013750.
Bowl barrow 800m SSE of Brooks Farm on Bell Hill 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 1013750.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 420m north west of Frogmore Farm (8.9 km), Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm (8.9 km), Round barrow cemetery on Deverel Down 380m west of Longthorns (9.2 km).
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