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Twenty-one barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Poor Lot is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. The barrow cemetery comprises multiple earthen mounds of varying sizes, representing a significant concentration of funerary monuments from the Bronze Age period. Such cemetery sites are characteristic of Bronze Age settlement patterns in southern England, where communities established burial grounds that were used over extended periods. The monument's survival as a discernible group of earthworks contributes to the archaeological evidence for Bronze Age mortuary practice and social organisation in this region of Dorset.
Twenty-one barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Poor Lot is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012026. View the official record →
Twenty-one barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Poor Lot is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012026.
Twenty-one barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Poor Lot 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 1012026.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two round barrows on Wears Hill (5.3 km), Round barrow E of The Buildings (5.5 km), St Peter's Abbey (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Twenty-one barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Poor Lot's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Twenty-one barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Poor Lot stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.