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Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill is a group of Bronze Age funerary monuments located west and north-west of Maiden Castle in Dorset. The barrows are typical of the Early Bronze Age tradition of single burial in round mounds, which were widely constructed across southern England during the second millennium BCE. The site forms part of the substantial archaeological landscape surrounding Maiden Castle, itself a major Iron Age hillfort, indicating the extended period of human activity and settlement in this region. The individual barrows remain visible as earthwork features on the hillside, preserving evidence of prehistoric burial practices and settlement patterns in the Dorset landscape.
Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill, west and north west of Maiden Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015777. View the official record →
Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill is a group of Bronze Age funerary monuments located west and north-west of Maiden Castle in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015777.
Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill, west and north west of Maiden Castle 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 1015777.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill (4.9 km), Group of barrows on West Hill (5.8 km), 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 (5.9 km).
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