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Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in the chalk downland of Dorset. The monument takes the form of a simple hemispherical mound, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the second millennium before the present era. The barrow represents a funerary tradition widespread across southern Britain during the Bronze Age, when such earthworks commonly marked the graves of individuals of elevated social status. As a scheduled monument, it remains an important archaeological witness to prehistoric burial practices and settlement patterns in the Dorset landscape.
Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015037. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in the chalk downland of Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015037.
Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush 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 1015037.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bell barrow 70m west of Fidler's Green (7.8 km), Bowl barrow 615m north east of Hardy's Birthplace (9 km), Three bowl barrows on Puddletown Heath, 550m south west of Beacon Corner (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush'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 Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.