
What is recorded here
The National Heritage List for England records Group of four bowl barrows 250m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe Common 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 barrows, Bronze Age funerary monuments, typically dating to 2000–800 BCE; they are significant as part of a wider round barrow cemetery, reflecting early ceremonial and burial practices in the landscape.
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Places near here
Geese admiring a stone sculpturePublic sculpture · 447 yd
Bowl barrow 650m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe CommonScheduled monument · 462 yd
Bowl barrow 930m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe CommonScheduled monument · 753 yd
Afflington Farm House and Dairy Cottage, Including Attached Outbuildings Dairy CottageListed building · 954 yd
Barn Immediately South of Afflington Farm HouseListed building · 966 yd
Corfe Castle Railway Station, Corfe Castle, DorsetCastle, fort or tower · 1323 yd
Swanage Railway MuseumMuseum · 1362 yd
Church in Corfe Castle VillageCastle, fort or tower · 1401 yd
East HillMountain / peak · 1640 yd
Rollington HillMountain / peak · 1.0 mi
The PlantationWood · 1.2 mi
Square PlantationWood · 1.5 miOther information
Photo: Jim Champion · CC BY-SA 2.0