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The Group of round barrows NW of Badbury Rings is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset near the Iron Age hillfort of Badbury Rings. The barrows represent funerary practices characteristic of the second millennium BC, when round barrow construction was prevalent across southern Britain. These earthworks survive as distinct topographic features in the landscape and form part of a wider distribution of Bronze Age burial monuments in the region. The proximity of this barrow group to the later Iron Age settlement at Badbury Rings demonstrates the long archaeological sequence of activity and settlement significance at this location in Dorset.
Group of round barrows NW of Badbury Rings is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002716. View the official record →
The Group of round barrows NW of Badbury Rings is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset near the Iron Age hillfort of Badbury Rings. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002716.
Group of round barrows NW of Badbury Rings 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 1002716.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Deserted settlement NW of Mountain Clump (5.7 km), Round barrow cemetery on Barrow Hill 150m south west of Brookvale Farm (6.7 km), Round barrow cemetery south and west of Rose Lawn Coppice, 600m south west of Higher Merley Farm (7.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Group of round barrows NW of Badbury Rings'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 round barrows NW of Badbury Rings stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.