What is recorded here
The National Heritage List for England records Round barrow cemetery on Povington Heath 550m north-east of Whiteway Farm 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.
Round barrow cemetery, dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BCE), consisting of multiple burial mounds. It represents a significant prehistoric funerary landscape, reflecting early communal burial practices and social organisation in the region.
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Places near here
Whiteway HillMountain / peak · 911 yd
Trig point on Whiteway Hill, Isle of PurbeckMountain or hill · 914 yd
Steep footpath up to the saddle between Whiteway Hill and Povington HillMountain or hill · 1024 yd
Two barrows known as 'Ferny Barrows' 500m west of Whiteway Farm: part of a round barrow cemetery to the south-east of East LulworthScheduled monument · 1151 yd
Povington HillMountain / peak · 1384 yd
RectoryRuins · 1579 yd
Church of St MaryListed building · 1626 yd
St Mary's ChurchMuseum · 1627 yd
Tyneham SchoolMuseum · 1660 yd
Tyneham GwyleWood · 1.0 mi
Flower's Barrow: a small multivallate hillfort and associated outwork on Rings HillScheduled monument · 1.1 mi
Flower's Barrow Hill FortCastle, fort or tower · 1.1 mi