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The Ulwell Barrow 400m N of Sheperds Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, England. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument and represents the funerary practices of the Bronze Age period, when such mounds were constructed to mark the graves of individuals of standing within their communities. Its survival in the landscape, despite agricultural use of the surrounding land over millennia, makes it an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement and burial custom in Dorset.
The Ulwell Barrow 400m N of Sheperds Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014292. View the official record →
The Ulwell Barrow 400m N of Sheperds Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014292.
The Ulwell Barrow 400m N of Sheperds 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 1014292.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of medieval strip lynchets at Knitson Farm (1.7 km), The old prison and pump (2.7 km), Bowl barrow 500m north east of Afflington Farm (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The Ulwell Barrow 400m N of Sheperds Farm'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.
The Ulwell Barrow 400m N of Sheperds Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.