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Bowl barrow 940m east of Dilton Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Beaulieu Airfield round barrow cemetery in Hampshire. The monument is a simple bowl barrow, the most common form of round barrow, consisting of a low earthen mound raised over a central burial pit. It dates to the Bronze Age period, when such monuments served as focal points for community burial practices and territorial markers across the Hampshire landscape. The barrow cemetery at Beaulieu represents a significant concentration of Bronze Age funerary activity, with this individual monument contributing to the archaeological understanding of prehistoric settlement and social organisation in the New Forest region.
Bowl barrow 940m east of Dilton Farm forming part of Beaulieu Airfield round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009967. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 940m east of Dilton Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Beaulieu Airfield round barrow cemetery in Hampshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009967.
Bowl barrow 940m east of Dilton Farm forming part of Beaulieu Airfield round barrow cemetery 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 1009967.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 250m south of Two Bridges Bottom (1.4 km), Two bowl barrows 460m north-west of Norley Inclosure (1.9 km), Bowl barrow 400m north-west of Norley Inclosure (1.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 940m east of Dilton Farm forming part of Beaulieu Airfield round barrow cemetery'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 940m east of Dilton Farm forming part of Beaulieu Airfield round barrow cemetery stands on Solent Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is clay, silt and sand.