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Bowl barrow and pillow mound on Earl's Hill, 650m and 780m north east of Furzey Down Farm is a scheduled ancient monument comprising two distinct features of different periods. The bowl barrow represents prehistoric Bronze Age funerary practice, a common burial form across Dorset's chalk downlands during the second millennium BCE. The pillow mound is a later addition to the landscape, dating to the medieval period and constructed as an artificial warren to support rabbit breeding for food and income. Together these monuments illustrate the successive use of the same upland area across more than three thousand years of English history.
Bowl barrow and pillow mound on Earl's Hill, 650m and 780m north east of Furzey Down Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019396. View the official record →
Bowl barrow and pillow mound on Earl's Hill, 650m and 780m north east of Furzey Down Farm is a scheduled ancient monument comprising two distinct features of different periods. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019396.
Bowl barrow and pillow mound on Earl's Hill, 650m and 780m north east of Furzey Down Farm 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 1019396.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 80m west of Dormy House (7.8 km), Cross-ridge dyke on Rawston Down (7.9 km), St Leonard's Chapel (8.1 km).
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