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The Group of barrows south of Goldsmith's Plantation is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset. The site comprises multiple burial mounds characteristic of the Bronze Age period, indicating a substantial ceremonial and burial landscape. Such barrow groups reflect the social organisation and religious practices of Bronze Age communities, with the clustering of individual mounds suggesting use over an extended chronological period. The monument remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric funerary activity in the Dorset landscape.
Group of barrows S of Goldsmith's Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002810. View the official record →
The Group of barrows south of Goldsmith's Plantation is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002810.
Group of barrows S of Goldsmith's Plantation 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 1002810.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy (4.8 km), Cross-ridge dyke on Windsbatch (5 km), Long barrow 400yds (360m) NW of Hill Barn (6.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Group of barrows S of Goldsmith's Plantation'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.
Group of barrows S of Goldsmith's Plantation stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.