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Four bowl barrows 400m north east of the radar station: part of a round barrow cemetery on Luccombe Down

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Four bowl barrows 400m north east of the radar station: part of a round barrow cemetery on Luccombe Down
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The National Heritage List for England records Four bowl barrows 400m north east of the radar station: part of a round barrow cemetery on Luccombe 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.
Four bowl barrows, part of a round barrow cemetery on Luccombe Down, date to the Early Bronze Age and represent a common funerary tradition in southern Britain. Their grouping indicates a significant ceremonial or burial landscape used by prehistoric communities.

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Photo: Graham Horn · CC BY-SA 2.0