Hiding in plain sight.
What? Where?
This is a Bronze Age bowl barrow / tumulus / burial ground. There are some 1800 round barrows in Dorset and many are extremely obvious in the landscape. Conversely some are hidden like this, deep in a wooded landscape.
Taken from the official records, this bowl barrow has "a mound composed of earth, sand and turf, with maximum dimensions of 21 metres in diameter and c1.5 metres in height. The mound is surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during its construction. The ditch is visible as an earthwork with maximum dimensions of 1.5 metres in width and c0.5 metres in depth.
A Bronze Age barrow such as this dates back some 3500 years.
Hiding in plain sight.
What? Where?
This is a Bronze Age bowl barrow / tumulus / burial ground. There are some 1800 round barrows in Dorset and many are extremely obvious in the landscape. Conversely some are hidden like this, deep in a wooded landscape.
Taken from the official records, this bowl barrow has "a mound composed of earth, sand and turf, with maximum dimensions of 21 metres in diameter and c1.5 metres in height. The mound is surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during its construction. The ditch is visible as an earthwork with maximum dimensions of 1.5 metres in width and c0.5 metres in depth.
A Bronze Age barrow such as this dates back some 3500 years.