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Bowl barrow on Summerlug Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located near Mannington Farm in Dorset. The barrow takes the form of a simple earthwork mound with a bowl-shaped profile, a characteristic form of funerary monument dating to the Bronze Age period. Such monuments typically contained cremated or inhumed remains and represent important evidence for Bronze Age burial practices and social organisation in southern England. The barrow's survival as an upstanding earthwork contributes to the archaeological record of Dorset's prehistoric landscape.
Bowl barrow on Summerlug Hill 250m south of Mannington Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018199. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Summerlug Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located near Mannington Farm in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018199.
Bowl barrow on Summerlug Hill 250m south of Mannington Farm 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 1018199.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dudsbury camp (7 km), Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation, 340m north of Arrowsmith House (9 km), Bowl barrow on Canford Heath 300m east of Alhambra (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Summerlug Hill 250m south of Mannington Farm'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 Summerlug Hill 250m south of Mannington Farm stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.