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Wor Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow located on Handley Down in Dorset. The monument is accompanied by two bowl barrows of Bronze Age date, which represent a later phase of burial practice at the site. The long barrow itself is aligned approximately east-west and survives as an earthwork, demonstrating the continuity of ritual and funerary use across the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. Such clustering of burial monuments is characteristic of important ceremonial landscapes in prehistoric Dorset, where successive generations chose to establish their dead in close proximity to earlier monumental structures.
Wor Barrow and two bowl barrows on Handley Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020066. View the official record →
Wor Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow located on Handley Down in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020066.
Wor Barrow and two bowl barrows on Handley Down 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 1020066.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval settlement 750m north west of Knowlton (6.9 km), Group of henge monuments, an associated group of round barrows, a Saxon cemetery, and a Norman church at Knowlton (7.4 km), Round barrow cemetery south of New Barn Farm, associated with the Knowlton Circles (7.7 km).
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