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Four bowl barrows 70m east of Seven Barrows Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. The site comprises four round burial mounds characteristic of the Bronze Age barrow tradition, constructed during the second millennium BCE to serve as repositories for the cremated or inhumed remains of individuals of likely social prominence. Bowl barrows of this type represent one of the most common forms of sepulchral monument from the Bronze Age period and typically measure between 6 and 20 metres in diameter with modest earthen mounds. The grouping of multiple barrows in close proximity suggests a family or community burial ground and demonstrates patterns of ritual funerary practice common to Bronze Age societies in southern England.
Four bowl barrows 70m east of Seven Barrows Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015374. View the official record →
Four bowl barrows 70m east of Seven Barrows Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015374.
Four bowl barrows 70m east of Seven Barrows 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 1015374.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Harp Stone (8.2 km), Bowl barrow 200m south east of East Orchard (8.8 km), Bowl barrow 900m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common (9.1 km).
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Four bowl barrows 70m east of Seven Barrows Farm stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.