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Round barrow SW of Ashton Cottages is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. The barrow survives as an earthwork mound representing a funerary structure typical of the second millennium BCE, when such monuments were constructed across southern Britain as repositories for the dead and markers of territorial significance. The site is recorded in the National Heritage List for England under entry 1002854, affirming its archaeological importance and protected status. Like many round barrows of its type and period, it represents evidence of Bronze Age burial practices and the social organisation of prehistoric Dorset communities.
Round barrow SW of Ashton Cottages is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002854. View the official record →
Round barrow SW of Ashton Cottages is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002854.
Round barrow SW of Ashton Cottages 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 1002854.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill (4.4 km), 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 (5.4 km), Langton Cross: a wayside cross 850m south west of Tatton House (6.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow SW of Ashton Cottages'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 SW of Ashton Cottages stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.