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Round barrow cemetery in Hyde Hill Plantation is a Bronze Age burial complex located in Dorset, England. The site comprises multiple round barrows, which represent a characteristic form of funerary monument dating to the Bronze Age period, when such earthen mounds were constructed to mark the graves of individuals of standing within their communities. The barrows demonstrate the landscape preferences of Bronze Age peoples, who frequently sited such monuments on elevated or prominent terrain. The cemetery preserves important evidence of prehistoric burial practices and settlement patterns in Dorset during the second millennium before Christ.
Round barrow cemetery in Hyde Hill Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020442. View the official record →
Round barrow cemetery in Hyde Hill Plantation is a Bronze Age burial complex located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020442.
Round barrow cemetery in Hyde Hill Plantation 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 1020442.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of round barrows NW of Badbury Rings (7.3 km), Straw Barrow (7.3 km), Section of Roman road NW of Badbury Rings (7.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow cemetery in Hyde Hill Plantation'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.
Round barrow cemetery in Hyde Hill Plantation stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.