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The southern of two bowl barrows on Holme Mount is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. Bowl barrows of this period typically consist of a earthen mound raised over a central burial deposit, often accompanied by cremated or inhumed remains. This example forms part of a pair of such monuments on the site, indicating the location held significance as a burial ground during the Bronze Age. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric funerary practice in the county.
The southern of two bowl barrows on Holme Mount is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008143. View the official record →
The southern of two bowl barrows on Holme Mount is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008143.
The southern of two bowl barrows on Holme Mount 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 1008143.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Harp Stone (4.1 km), Iron Age settlement and associated field system on Smedmore Hill (5.4 km), Alum works, other multi-period industrial remains and an associated group of jetties and breakwaters, Kimmeridge Bay (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The southern of two bowl barrows on Holme Mount's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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The southern of two bowl barrows on Holme Mount stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.