Scheduled MonumentsEnglandStable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm

Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm

England
List entry 1014761
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1014761
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.07 hectares
Grid reference
SY 79464 99341
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Dorset. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument typical of the funerary practices of the second and first millennia BC, when such mounds served as communal or individual burial sites across southern England. The monument's preservation on the Dorset landscape reflects the archaeological importance of the county's extensive barrow cemeteries, which form part of the wider Bronze Age settlement pattern of the region. As a designated heritage asset, the site contributes to our understanding of prehistoric burial customs and territorial organisation in Wessex.

Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014761. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm?

Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014761.

Who is responsible for protecting Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm?

Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm 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 1014761.

What other scheduled monuments are near Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 640m north of Squibbs Farm (7.2 km), Bell barrow in Millicent's Plantation (8.2 km), Bowl barrow 570m south east of Heatherdown (8.3 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm

Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.