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Four bowl barrows 725m ESE of Wears Farm is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located near Powerstock in Dorset. The site comprises four burial mounds of the bowl barrow type, a common form of round barrow constructed during the third and second millennia before the present. Bowl barrows typically consist of a central burial chamber covered by an earthen mound, often surrounded by a ditch, and served as communal or elite burial places for prehistoric communities. This group of four barrows represents significant evidence of ritual and burial practice in Dorset during the prehistoric period.
Four bowl barrows 725m ESE of Wears Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002825. View the official record →
Four bowl barrows 725m ESE of Wears Farm is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located near Powerstock in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002825.
Four bowl barrows 725m ESE of Wears 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 1002825.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dyke on Wears Hill (0.1 km), Group of five round barrows on White Hill (0.6 km), Two round barrows on Wears Hill (0.9 km).
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Four bowl barrows 725m ESE of Wears Farm stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.