Bowl barrow on south eastern side of Darracott Moor, 750m WSW of Belle Vue Lodge

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History & significance

Bowl barrow on south eastern side of Darracott Moor, 750m WSW of Belle Vue Lodge is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The barrow takes the form of a circular earthwork mound, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the Bronze Age, a period when such burial structures were commonly erected across the moorland landscapes of south-western England. The monument survives as a substantial earthwork and remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age burial practice and settlement patterns on Dartmoor. Its designation as a nationally important monument reflects its contribution to understanding the prehistoric use and organisation of the moorland environment.

Bowl barrow on south eastern side of Darracott Moor, 750m WSW of Belle Vue Lodge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013652. View the official record →

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