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Bowl barrow on East Hill near Sydling Woods is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset. The barrow takes the form of a simple mound with a circular plan, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the Bronze Age period. Such monuments typically contained inhumation burials, often accompanied by grave goods, and served as focal points for ritual activity and the commemoration of the deceased within prehistoric communities. The site is recorded as a scheduled ancient monument and forms part of the broader archaeological landscape of Bronze Age burial sites distributed across the Dorset downs.
Bowl barrow on East Hill near Sydling Woods is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015052. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on East Hill near Sydling Woods is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015052.
Bowl barrow on East Hill near Sydling Woods 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 1015052.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of three round barrows SW of Longlands Barn (9 km), Cross in St Mary's churchyard (9.2 km), Part of a Later Iron Age or Romano-British settlement 590m north west of Compton Barn (9.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on East Hill near Sydling Woods'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 on East Hill near Sydling Woods stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.