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Six barrows on Ridgeway Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, comprising a linear cemetery of six round barrows arrayed along the ridge. The barrows date to the Bronze Age, a period when such funerary monuments were constructed across southern England as visible markers of elite or communal burial practices. The site reflects the ritual and social importance of the Ridgeway landscape during prehistory, with the barrows arranged in a manner typical of linear barrow cemeteries found on prominent topographical features. The monument remains archaeologically significant as evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and mortuary practice in the region.
Six barrows on Ridgeway Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002746. View the official record →
Six barrows on Ridgeway Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, comprising a linear cemetery of six round barrows arrayed along the ridge. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002746.
Six barrows on Ridgeway 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 1002746.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including 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 (2.8 km), Preston Roman villa (4.1 km), George III, chalk-cut hill side figure (4.2 km).
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