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Bowl barrow in Pomfrey's Plantation is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. The barrow takes the form of a simple bowl-shaped mound, a common burial type from the Bronze Age period, and is situated within woodland that has protected it from significant modern disturbance. Such barrows were typically constructed over cremated or inhumed remains and often served as focal points for ritual activity during the second and early first millennia BCE. The monument is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry number 1008161, recognising its archaeological importance as evidence of prehistoric burial practice and settlement patterns in Dorset.
Bowl barrow in Pomfrey's Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008161. View the official record →
Bowl barrow in Pomfrey's Plantation is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008161.
Bowl barrow in Pomfrey's Plantation 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 1008161.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Harp Stone (2.8 km), Alum works, other multi-period industrial remains and an associated group of jetties and breakwaters, Kimmeridge Bay (3.9 km), Flower's Barrow: a small multivallate hillfort and associated outwork on Rings Hill (4.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow in Pomfrey's Plantation'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 in Pomfrey's Plantation stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.