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Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill is a pair of Bronze Age funerary monuments located in Dorset. Bowl barrows represent one of the most common forms of prehistoric burial mound, typically constructed as simple earthen domes covering inhumation or cremation deposits, and these examples date to the second millennium BC. The barrows on Conygar Hill form part of the broader landscape of Bronze Age ritual and mortuary practices characteristic of southern England during this period. Their survival and scheduling as a protected monument reflect their archaeological importance as evidence for prehistoric settlement patterns and burial customs in Dorset.
Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017270. View the official record →
Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill is a pair of Bronze Age funerary monuments located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017270.
Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill 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 1017270.
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 (5.1 km), Preston Roman villa (6.3 km), Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village (6.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.