Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery

Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery
One of the disc barrows
Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery is located in Dorset
Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery
Shown within Dorset
Locationnear Sixpenny Handley, Dorset
Coordinates50°57′15″N 1°58′31″W / 50.95417°N 1.97528°W / 50.95417; -1.97528
OS grid referenceSU 018 172
History
PeriodsBronze Age
Site notes
Excavation datesEarly 19th century
ArchaeologistsSir Richard Colt Hoare and William Cunnington
Designated15 October 1924
Reference no.1002674

Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery is a group of Bronze Age round barrows on Cranborne Chase, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the village of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument.[1]

  1. ^ Historic England. "Group of round barrows on Oakley Down (1002674)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 February 2021.