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Bowl Barrow on The Cliff is a scheduled monument situated 680 metres east of Luton Farm in Dorset. The barrow sits on chalk bedrock of the White Chalk Subgroup, geology that would have been familiar to the Bronze Age communities who constructed it. The surrounding landscape of The Cliff offers commanding views across the Dorset countryside, typical of the high ground favoured for burial monuments during the second millennium BC.
The bowl barrow is protected by Historic England as a nationally significant archaeological site under reference 1015187, with a scheduled area of 0.08 hectares. This modest size reflects the original earthwork form: a simple mounded burial chamber surrounded by a shallow ditch. The chalk subsoil beneath the monument would have been worked by Bronze Age people using antler picks and flint tools, the spoil heaped to create the distinctive rounded mound that gives the monument its name.
The barrow's survival on The Cliff demonstrates the importance of scheduled monument protection to preserve Bronze Age burial grounds. The open moorland setting has protected it from agricultural development that has destroyed many similar monuments across Dorset. The chalk landscape continues to reveal archaeological evidence of the communities who used this elevated terrain for ritual and burial purposes across many centuries.
Bowl barrow on The Cliff 680m east of Luton Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015187. View the official record →
Bowl Barrow on The Cliff is a scheduled monument situated 680 metres east of Luton Farm in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015187.
Bowl barrow on The Cliff 680m east of Luton 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 1015187.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Henbury Barrow, a bowl barrow 800m west of Henbury Hall (9 km), Remains of medieval standing cross adjacent to St Mary's Church, Almer (9 km), Roman camp, forts and a vexillation fortress 240m north of Lake Farm (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on The Cliff 680m east of Luton Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bowl barrow on The Cliff 680m east of Luton Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.