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Round barrow on Pound Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. The barrow forms part of the broader landscape of prehistoric funerary practice in the region, dating to the second millennium BCE when such earthen mounds were constructed to mark elite and communal burial sites. The monument survives as an upstanding circular mound, a characteristic physical form of Bronze Age round barrows that served to make burials visually prominent within the contemporary landscape. Such barrows typically contained inhumations or cremations, often accompanied by grave goods, though the specific contents of this particular example are not fully documented in readily available sources.
Round barrow on Pound Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002870. View the official record →
Round barrow on Pound Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002870.
Round barrow on Pound 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 1002870.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 720m south east of Friar Waddon House (5.8 km), Cross-ridge dyke on Windsbatch (6.6 km), Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy (6.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow on Pound Hill'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 on Pound Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.