Bowl barrow and length of field boundary on Peaked Hill, 440m south-west of East Boldre Vicarage

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History & significance

Bowl barrow and length of field boundary on Peaked Hill, 440m south-west of East Boldre Vicarage is a Bronze Age burial mound located in the New Forest area of Hampshire. The monument comprises a bowl barrow, a common funerary structure of the Bronze Age period, together with an adjacent section of field boundary whose relationship to the barrow indicates successive land use patterns across the prehistoric and later periods. The barrow itself represents evidence of Bronze Age burial practice and settlement activity in the New Forest region, whilst the associated field boundary demonstrates the continuity and evolution of land division and management in this location through subsequent historical periods.

Bowl barrow and length of field boundary on Peaked Hill, 440m south-west of East Boldre Vicarage is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008764. View the official record →

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