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The Group of round barrows west of Ridgeway Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset. The barrows form a cluster typical of Bronze Age burial practice, when such earthen mounds were constructed to inter the dead and mark significant territorial or social locations. The precise composition and state of preservation of individual barrows within this group reflect the characteristic degradation of such monuments through agricultural use and natural erosion over more than three millennia. As recorded monuments of the Bronze Age period, these barrows contribute to the archaeological understanding of settlement patterns and burial customs in prehistoric Dorset.
Group of round barrows W of Ridgeway Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002763. View the official record →
The Group of round barrows west of Ridgeway Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002763.
Group of round barrows W of Ridgeway Hill 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 1002763.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including 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 (3.5 km), Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole (4.6 km), Preston Roman villa (4.8 km).
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