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Bowl barrow 850m WNW of Peaked Close House is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common in Dorset. The barrow comprises a circular mound of earth and stone, the characteristic form of Bronze Age funerary architecture, likely erected sometime between the third and first millennia before the present. As a constituent element of the wider barrow cemetery, it contributes to evidence of sustained use of Corfe Common for burial and ceremonial purposes during the prehistoric period. The monument is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry 1011491 and represents an important archaeological survival within Dorset's extensive Bronze Age ceremonial landscape.
Bowl barrow 850m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011491. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 850m WNW of Peaked Close House is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011491.
Bowl barrow 850m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common 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 1011491.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 350m and 410m south of Afflington Barn (2.3 km), Bowl barrow 760m south west of Afflington Barn (2.5 km), Iron Age settlement and associated field system on Smedmore Hill (2.8 km).
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