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Bowl barrow on Black Down is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, situated approximately 50 metres south of the Hardy Monument on Black Down. The monument is a typical example of the bowl barrow form, a common funerary structure of the Bronze Age period, characterized by a circular mound of earth and stone raised over a central burial. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument and represents an important component of the Bronze Age funerary landscape of the Dorset uplands, forming part of a wider distribution of such monuments across the region that testify to settlement and ceremonial practices during the second millennium before Christ.
Bowl barrow on Black Down, 50m south of the Hardy Monument is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016730. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Black Down is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, situated approximately 50 metres south of the Hardy Monument on Black Down. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016730.
Bowl barrow on Black Down, 50m south of the Hardy Monument 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 1016730.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 720m south east of Friar Waddon House (3.9 km), Two fishponds in Oddens Wood (4.2 km), St Peter's Abbey (4.4 km).
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