Location | grid reference SU120412 |
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Coordinates | 51°10′12″N 1°49′48″W / 51.170°N 1.830°W |
Type | Round barrow cemetery |
Part of | Stonehenge ritual landscape |
Length | 1 km |
History | |
Periods | Bronze Age |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 18th and 19th centuries |
Archaeologists | William Cunnington and others |
Ownership | Part managed as an RSPB reserve |
Public access | Crossed by two bridleways |
Official name | Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | i, ii, iii |
Designated | 1986 (10th session) |
Reference no. | 373 |
Region | Europe and North America |
Designated | 1925 |
Reference no. | (west to east): 1009617, 1009618, 1009614, 1009615, 1009616, 1010330 |
Normanton Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age barrow cemetery, about 0.6 miles (1 km) south of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. The burials date from between 2600 and 1600 BC and consist of a Neolithic long barrow and some 40 or more Bronze Age round barrows, along the crest of a low ridge.[1]