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Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation is a Bronze Age funerary monument located approximately 340 metres north of Arrowsmith House in Dorset. The barrow takes the form of a bowl-shaped earthen mound, a burial type characteristic of the Bronze Age period when such monuments were constructed throughout southern England as repositories for the cremated or inhumed remains of the deceased. The site remains substantially intact as a landscape feature, preserving evidence of prehistoric burial practice and settlement patterns in the region. Bowl barrows of this type represent an important category of archaeological monument from the second and early first millennia before the present.
Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation, 340m north of Arrowsmith House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018197. View the official record →
Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation is a Bronze Age funerary monument located approximately 340 metres north of Arrowsmith House in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018197.
Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation, 340m north of Arrowsmith House 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 1018197.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows in Arrowsmith Coppice 200m south of Arrowsmith House (0.5 km), Bowl barrow on Dunyeat's Hill 650m south west of Arrowsmith House (0.9 km), Bowl barrow on Canford Heath 730m south east of Alhambra (1.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation, 340m north of Arrowsmith House's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation, 340m north of Arrowsmith House stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.