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Bowl barrow on Breeze Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, positioned approximately 760 metres south east of Zig-Zag Hill. The monument comprises a circular earthwork of the type characteristic of prehistoric funerary practice in southern England, where such barrows served as communal or individual burial sites and functioned as significant markers within the Bronze Age landscape. The barrow remains visible as a substantial earthwork despite the passage of millennia, preserving evidence of ritual and mortuary practice from the second and early third millennia before the present era. As a designated heritage asset, the site contributes to understanding the distribution and character of prehistoric burial monuments across the Dorset uplands.
Bowl barrow on Breeze Hill, 760m south east of the top of Zig-Zag Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013679. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Breeze Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, positioned approximately 760 metres south east of Zig-Zag Hill. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013679.
Bowl barrow on Breeze Hill, 760m south east 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 1013679.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman villa on Little Barton Hill (8.8 km), Two bowl barrows in Hinton Bushes 850m north of Pimperne Long Barrow (9 km), Two bowl barrows in Hinton Bushes 810m north of Pimperne Long Barrow (9.1 km).
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