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Huck Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Knighton Heath Wood near Knighton, Dorset. The barrow survives as an earthwork mound and forms part of the scattered Bronze Age funerary landscape characteristic of the Dorset heathlands. Like other barrows of its type and period, it would originally have contained an inhumation burial, though the precise construction details and any internal features remain undocumented in the accessible scholarly record. The monument is protected as a scheduled ancient monument and represents an important survival of the region's prehistoric burial archaeology.
Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003219. View the official record →
Huck Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Knighton Heath Wood near Knighton, Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003219.
Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood 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 1003219.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 200m south east of Hill Barn: two of a group of three barrows (7.7 km), Bowl barrow 200m south east of Hill Barn: one of a group of three barrows (7.7 km), Bowl barrow 550m south of Chaldon Down Buildings: part of the Chaldon Down round barrow cemetery (7.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood'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.
Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.