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Herringston round barrows is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. The site comprises a group of round barrows dating to the second millennium BC, representing typical funerary practices of the Bronze Age communities in southern Britain. These earthen mounds would originally have contained inhumation or cremation burials, along with accompanying grave goods characteristic of the period. The barrows survive as earthwork features and form part of the wider Bronze Age funerary landscape of Dorset, an area particularly rich in such monuments.
Herringston round barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002831. View the official record →
Herringston round barrows is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002831.
Herringston round barrows 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 1002831.
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 (4.7 km), Preston Roman villa (6 km), Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill (6.5 km).
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