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Two bowl barrows 400m west of Longlands Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of the Longlands round barrow cemetery in Dorset. The site comprises two distinct bowl-shaped burial mounds, a common funerary form characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practices in southern England, dating to approximately the second millennium BC. These earthworks represent significant evidence of ritual burial customs and settlement patterns during the Bronze Age period. The barrows form part of a larger cemetery complex, indicating the site's importance as a focal point for communal burial practices over an extended period.
Two bowl barrows 400m west of Longlands Farm, forming part of the Longlands round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013259. View the official record →
Two bowl barrows 400m west of Longlands Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of the Longlands round barrow cemetery in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013259.
Two bowl barrows 400m west of Longlands Farm, forming part of the Longlands round barrow cemetery 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 1013259.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two fishponds in Oddens Wood (5.5 km), St Peter's Abbey (5.5 km), Friar Waddon Hill round barrows (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Two bowl barrows 400m west of Longlands Farm, forming part of the Longlands round barrow cemetery's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Two bowl barrows 400m west of Longlands Farm, forming part of the Longlands round barrow cemetery stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.