What is recorded here
The National Heritage List for England records Bowl barrow 810m NNE of Whatcombe House, forming part of the round barrow cemetery on the south western part of Black Down as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Bowl barrow, dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BCE), is a type of burial mound typically containing a single inhumation. This example is part of a round barrow cemetery, indicating a significant prehistoric funerary landscape used for communal burial practices.
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