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Group of six bowl barrows, forming a round barrow cemetery on Black Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. The site consists of six bowl barrows, a common sepulchral form of the Bronze Age period, arranged together as a barrow cemetery. Such groupings of round barrows often indicate repeated use of a favourable burial location across generations and suggest the importance of the locality to Bronze Age communities. The monument remains a significant archaeological record of funerary practice and settlement patterns during the Bronze Age in Dorset.
Group of six bowl barrows, forming a round barrow cemetery on Black Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015897. View the official record →
Group of six bowl barrows, forming a round barrow cemetery on Black Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015897.
Group of six bowl barrows, forming a round barrow cemetery on Black 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 1015897.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval settlement 350m east of West Burton Dairy (8.4 km), Romano-British settlement site (8.5 km), Barrow group 200m north-east of Woodman's Cross (8.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Group of six bowl barrows, forming a round barrow cemetery on Black Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Group of six bowl barrows, forming a round barrow cemetery on Black Hill stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.