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Disc barrow 715m west of Bayard Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. The site comprises a circular mound surrounded by a ditch, a characteristic form of disc barrow typical of the second millennium BC. Such monuments served as elite burial places and represent significant ritual and social investment during the Bronze Age period. The barrow's survival in the landscape makes it an important archaeological record of prehistoric funerary practice in southern England.
Disc barrow 715m west of Bayard Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002700. View the official record →
Disc barrow 715m west of Bayard Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002700.
Disc barrow 715m west of Bayard 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 1002700.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields (4.3 km), Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole (5.2 km), Barrow 200yds (180m) N of the White Horse (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Disc barrow 715m west of Bayard 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.
Disc barrow 715m west of Bayard Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.