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Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. Bowl barrows are among the most common form of burial mound from the Bronze Age period, typically comprising a central burial chamber surrounded by an earthen mound of circular plan. The two barrows at this location represent examples of this widespread burial tradition across southern England during the second millennium before the common era. Such monuments are of considerable archaeological significance as indicators of Bronze Age settlement patterns, social organization, and funerary practice in the region.
Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002754. View the official record →
Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002754.
Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy 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 1002754.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields (3.4 km), Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole (3.9 km), Preston Roman villa (4.7 km).
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Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy stands on Purbeck Limestone Group, bedrock that formed in the Berriasian. The rock here is limestone and mudstone, interbedded.