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Bowl barrow on Stoborough Heath 240m NNE of Hill View is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. The site consists of a circular mound with a distinctive bowl-shaped profile, characteristic of barrows constructed during the Bronze Age period. Bowl barrows of this type were commonly used as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains and represent significant funerary monuments within the Bronze Age burial tradition of southern Britain. The barrow's survival and designation as a scheduled monument reflects its archaeological importance as evidence of Bronze Age settlement and mortuary practices in the Dorset landscape.
Bowl barrow on Stoborough Heath 240m NNE of Hill View is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014302. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Stoborough Heath 240m NNE of Hill View is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014302.
Bowl barrow on Stoborough Heath 240m NNE of Hill View 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 1014302.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Iron Age settlement and associated field system on Smedmore Hill (4.9 km), Bowl barrow on Swyre Head (6.2 km), Alum works, other multi-period industrial remains and an associated group of jetties and breakwaters, Kimmeridge Bay (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Stoborough Heath 240m NNE of Hill View'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 Stoborough Heath 240m NNE of Hill View stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.