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Sandy Barrow is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, England. The barrow survives as an earthwork of modest proportions, representing the funerary practices of prehistoric communities in the region. Such monuments are characteristic of the period between approximately 4000 and 1200 BC, when burial mounds served as focal points for ritual and commemoration of the dead. The site contributes to the wider archaeological landscape of Dorset, which contains numerous comparable burial monuments from the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods.
Sandy Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017280. View the official record →
Sandy Barrow is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017280.
Sandy Barrow 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 1017280.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval settlement at West Ringstead (7.7 km), Icehouse at Ringstead, 660m south west of Pit House (7.7 km), Upton Fort, a coastal artillery battery and two searchlight emplacements (7.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Sandy Barrow'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.
Sandy Barrow stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.