The barrow a top Stonehill Down commands spectacular views along the Purbeck Hills, over the great heath and on to the quiet anchorages of Poole Harbour. Dating from the late Neolithic or Bronze Age, the monument is variously quoted as being, a long barrow or a bowl barrow, when in fact archaeological survey shows it's actually a oval barrow, surrounded by a ditch with a causeway at each end, this site represents a rare prehistoric monument, possibly one of only fifty known.
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