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Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath is a Bronze Age burial mound situated approximately 400 metres north east of Duck Dairy House in Dorset. The monument takes the form of a simple hemispherical mound, characteristic of bowl barrow construction during the Bronze Age period. The barrow is part of the wider distribution of funerary monuments recorded across Puddletown Heath, which reflects the intensive ritual landscape created during the second and early first millennia before Christ. As a designated heritage asset, the monument retains archaeological potential and contributes to understanding Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in this region of Dorset.
Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015348. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath is a Bronze Age burial mound situated approximately 400 metres north east of Duck Dairy House in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015348.
Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House 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 1015348.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Kerbed cairn 590m south east of Poxwell Manor (8.1 km), Medieval settlement at Holworth (8.9 km), Three barrows S of Poxwell Big Wood (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House'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 Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.