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Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill, west and north west of Maiden Castle, is a Bronze Age funerary monument group located in Dorset. The barrows are characteristic examples of burial mounds from the second millennium BCE, constructed to contain inhumations or cremations of the period's elite or established community members. Their positioning on Hog Hill, in proximity to the Iron Age hillfort of Maiden Castle, demonstrates the long-term ritual significance of this landscape across multiple prehistoric periods. The barrows survive as earthwork features and form part of the broader archaeological complex surrounding one of Dorset's most substantial prehistoric monuments.
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, west and north west of Maiden Castle, is a Bronze Age funerary monument group located 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).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill, west and north west of Maiden Castle's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill, west and north west of Maiden Castle stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.