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Two round barrows on Wears Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. The site comprises two distinct burial mounds characteristic of prehistoric ritual and commemorative practice, typical of the period between approximately 3000 and 1000 BC. Round barrows of this type served as focal points for ancestral veneration and territorial marking within early prehistoric communities. The monument's survival on Wears Hill represents an important archaeological record of burial practice and landscape use during the early metal-working periods of southern England.
Two round barrows on Wears Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002731. View the official record →
Two round barrows on Wears Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002731.
Two round barrows on Wears 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 1002731.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Four bowl barrows 725m ESE of Wears Farm (0.9 km), Dyke on Wears Hill (1 km), Group of five round barrows on White Hill (1.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Two round barrows on Wears Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Two round barrows on Wears Hill stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.