Two bowl barrows 85m and 130m south west of Cambrai House

Overview

Heritage Category: Scheduled Monument

List Entry Number: 1020738

Date first listed: 27-Jun-1967

Date of most recent amendment: 24-Jul-2002

Location

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

National Grid Reference: SY 82200 89089, SY 82229 89121

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. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring across most of lowland Britain. 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 and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of protection.

Despite some disturbance, the two bowl barrows 85m and 130m south west of Cambrai House survive comparatively well and will contain archaeological and environmental evidence relating to the monument and the landscape in which it was constructed.

History

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Details

The monument, which falls into two separate areas of protection, includes two bowl barrows situated on a ridge on the edge of Crane's Moor, to the south west of Cambrai House. The northern of the two barrows has a mound composed of earth, sand and turf, with maximum dimensions of 8m in diameter and about 0.75m in height. It has been partly disturbed. The southern barrow has maximum dimensions of 12m in diameter and is about 1m in height. Each mound is surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument. The ditches have become infilled over the years, but each will survive as a buried feature about 1m wide.

MAP EXTRACT The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract. It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features, considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number: 35241

Legacy System: RSM

Sources

Books and journals
Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset: Volume I, (1970), 474

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.