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Bull Barrow on Holt Heath is a Bronze Age round barrow located in Dorset, England. The monument forms part of the extensive barrow cemetery that characterises the Holt Heath landscape, an area rich in prehistoric burial monuments dating primarily to the second millennium BCE. The barrow survives as an earthwork mound and represents the funerary practices of Bronze Age communities in southern England, where such burial structures served as focal points for ritual activity and territorial expression. Its preservation as a scheduled ancient monument reflects its archaeological significance as evidence of prehistoric settlement patterns and social organisation in the region.
Bull Barrow on Holt Heath is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018198. View the official record →
Bull Barrow on Holt Heath is a Bronze Age round barrow located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018198.
Bull Barrow on Holt Heath 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 1018198.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dudsbury camp (7.4 km), Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation, 340m north of Arrowsmith House (8.5 km), Bowl barrow on Canford Heath 300m east of Alhambra (8.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bull Barrow on Holt Heath'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.
Bull Barrow on Holt Heath stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.