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Sandy Barrow W of East Farm Dairy is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, England. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument typical of the funerary landscape created during the Bronze Age, when such mounds served as focal points for ritual deposition and communal memory. Its designation within the National Heritage List for England reflects its archaeological and historical importance as evidence of prehistoric settlement and burial practices in the region. The site contributes to understanding Bronze Age mortuary customs and the distribution of ceremonial monuments across the Dorset landscape.
Sandy Barrow W of East Farm Dairy is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002776. View the official record →
Sandy Barrow W of East Farm Dairy is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002776.
Sandy Barrow W of East Farm Dairy 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 1002776.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 200m south east of Hill Barn: one of a group of three barrows (4.7 km), Two bowl barrows 200m south east of Hill Barn: two of a group of three barrows (4.8 km), Earl of Abergavenny (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Sandy Barrow W of East Farm Dairy'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 W of East Farm Dairy stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.