Two bowl barrows 720m south east of Friar Waddon House
Overview
Heritage Category: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number: 1003216
Date first listed: 08-Aug-1957
Location Description: Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
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Location
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The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Dorset
District: West Dorset (District Authority)
Parish: Portesham
National Grid Reference: SY 64532 85440, SY 64598 85412
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar, although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form and a diversity of burial practices. Often occupying prominent locations, they are a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period. The two bowl barrows 720m south east of Friar Waddon House survive comparatively well and will contain archaeological and environmental evidence relating to their construction, relative chronologies, interrelationship, territorial significance, social organisation, ritual and funerary practices and overall landscape context.
History
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Details
The monument, which falls into two areas of protection, includes two bowl barrows, situated on the summit of the extremely prominent and steeply sloping Friar Waddon Hill. The barrows survive as circular mounds surrounded by buried quarry ditches, from which the construction material was derived. The western barrow mound is 15m in diameter and 2m high and the eastern mound is 11m in diameter and 0.2m in height.
Further archaeological remains in the vicinity some are scheduled separately.
Sources: HER:-
PastScape Monument No:-452490
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: DO 222
Legacy System: RSM - OCN
Legal
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
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