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Disc barrow and pillbox within Boscombe Down airfield, 520 metres south-east of the Officers' Mess is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. The site comprises a disc barrow, a type of funerary monument characteristic of the Bronze Age, overlain or associated with a later twentieth-century defensive pillbox constructed during the Second World War. The disc barrow represents the prehistoric use of the landscape for burial practices, whilst the pillbox exemplifies the military fortification of Boscombe Down during the period of heightened national defence. The juxtaposition of these two structures, separated by approximately three thousand years, illustrates the successive strategic importance of the Salisbury Plain location across different historical periods.
Disc barrow and pillbox within Boscombe Down airfield, 520m south east of the Officers' Mess is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015030. View the official record →
Disc barrow and pillbox within Boscombe Down airfield, 520 metres south-east of the Officers' Mess is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015030.
Disc barrow and pillbox within Boscombe Down airfield, 520m south east of the Officers' Mess 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 1015030.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Long barrow 140m WSW of the Battery Hill triangulation point (6 km), 'Ende Burgh' long barrow (6.1 km), Figsbury Ring (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Disc barrow and pillbox within Boscombe Down airfield, 520m south east of the Officers' Mess'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 and pillbox within Boscombe Down airfield, 520m south east of the Officers' Mess stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.