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Four barrows on Moigns Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age burial monument complex located in Dorset. The site comprises four distinct barrows, earthen mounds that served as burial structures across the prehistoric periods, reflecting the funerary practices of communities inhabiting the chalk downlands during the third and second millennia BC. These monuments represent important evidence of ritual and settlement patterns in prehistoric Dorset, contributing to understanding of Bronze Age land use and social organisation in the region. The barrows remain visible as landscape features on the downland, forming part of the broader archaeological record of barrow cemeteries characteristic of the Wessex chalk uplands.
Four barrows on Moigns Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002774. View the official record →
Four barrows on Moigns Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age burial monument complex located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002774.
Four barrows on Moigns Down 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 1002774.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 200m south east of Hill Barn: two of a group of three barrows (3 km), Bowl barrow 200m south east of Hill Barn: one of a group of three barrows (3 km), Bowl barrow 650m south of Chaldon Down Buildings: part of the Chaldon Down round barrow cemetery (3.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Four barrows on Moigns Down'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.
Four barrows on Moigns Down stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.