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Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath is a Bronze Age burial mound situated approximately 800 metres south-west of Coombe Barn in Dorset. The monument takes the form of a simple hemispherical or bowl-shaped earthwork, characteristic of the earlier Bronze Age funerary tradition in southern England, typically dating to the period between 2000 and 1500 BCE. Such barrows served as communal or individual burial monuments and represent a significant phase of ritual landscape development in the Dorset heathlands. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary practice in the region.
Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 800m south west of Coombe Barn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015349. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath is a Bronze Age burial mound situated approximately 800 metres south-west of Coombe Barn in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015349.
Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 800m south west of Coombe Barn 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 1015349.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village (8.8 km), Two barrows 600yds (550m) N of Halls Farm (9 km), Four barrows on Moigns Down (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 800m south west of Coombe Barn'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, 800m south west of Coombe Barn stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.