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Bowl barrow in Calcots Wood, 550m east of Tollard Farm, is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset. The barrow takes the form of a simple earthen mound with a circular plan, characteristic of bowl barrows from the second millennium BCE. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods, and served as focal points for ritual and commemoration within Bronze Age communities. The survival of this barrow within Calcots Wood demonstrates the persistence of prehistoric funerary remains within the Dorset landscape, where numerous barrow fields and individual monuments mark the distribution of early metal-working societies across the county.
Bowl barrow in Calcots Wood, 550m east of Tollard Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020064. View the official record →
Bowl barrow in Calcots Wood, 550m east of Tollard Farm, is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020064.
Bowl barrow in Calcots Wood, 550m east of Tollard 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 1020064.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow cemetery 400m and 500m south east of Hyde Hill Plantation (7.2 km), Bowl barrow 200m south east of Pimperne Long Barrow (8 km), Lengths of Roman road in Norwood Coppice and in The Rookery (8.6 km).
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