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Bowl barrow north of Breeze Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, England, situated approximately 540 metres to the east-south-east of Zig-Zag Hill's summit. The monument takes the form of a bowl barrow, a common funerary structure of the Bronze Age, characterised by a simple earthen mound with a surrounding ditch. Such barrows typically functioned as burial monuments for high-status individuals and their grave goods, reflecting the ritual and ceremonial practices of Bronze Age communities in southern England. The site remains an important archaeological witness to prehistoric mortuary practices and settlement patterns in the Dorset landscape.
Bowl barrow north of Breeze Hill, 540m ESE of the top of Zig-Zag Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013677. View the official record →
Bowl barrow north of Breeze Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, England, situated approximately 540 metres to the east-south-east of Zig-Zag Hill's summit. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013677.
Bowl barrow north of Breeze Hill, 540m ESE of the top of Zig-Zag Hill 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 1013677.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman villa on Little Barton Hill (9.1 km), Two bowl barrows in Hinton Bushes 850m north of Pimperne Long Barrow (9.4 km), Two bowl barrows in Hinton Bushes 810m north of Pimperne Long Barrow (9.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow north of Breeze Hill, 540m ESE of the top of Zig-Zag Hill'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 north of Breeze Hill, 540m ESE of the top of Zig-Zag Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.