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Bowl barrow on St Aldhelm's Head is a Bronze Age burial mound located on the Dorset coast near St Aldhelm's Chapel. The monument consists of a roughly circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common form of funerary monument constructed during the Bronze Age, approximately 2200 to 700 BCE. As a surviving example of prehistoric burial practice in this coastal landscape, it contributes to the archaeological record of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement and mortuary activity in Dorset. The barrow's position on the prominent headland suggests it held significance within the local prehistoric community, though like many such monuments its precise date and original contents remain undetermined without excavation.
Bowl barrow on St Aldhelm's Head, 470m north east of St Aldhelm's Chapel is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017267. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on St Aldhelm's Head is a Bronze Age burial mound located on the Dorset coast near St Aldhelm's Chapel. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017267.
Bowl barrow on St Aldhelm's Head, 470m north east of St Aldhelm's Chapel 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 1017267.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Early Christian enclosure on St Aldhelm's Head (0.5 km), Bowl barrow on Emmett's Hill (0.7 km), Group of medieval strip lynchets at East and West Man (1.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on St Aldhelm's Head, 470m north east of St Aldhelm's Chapel'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 St Aldhelm's Head, 470m north east of St Aldhelm's Chapel stands on Portland Group, bedrock that formed in the Portlandian. The rock here is limestone and calcareous sandstone.