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Beach Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Hampshire, England. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument typical of the prehistoric funerary landscape of southern Britain, dating to the second millennium BC. As a recorded archaeological site within the heritage landscape, it represents the burial practices and territorial organisation of Bronze Age communities in the region.
Beach Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1001840. View the official record →
Beach Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Hampshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1001840.
Beach Barrow is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1001840.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 90m south of Hill Lodge: part of a group of round barrows on Broughton Hill (1.4 km), Bowl barrow 20m south west of Hill Lodge: one of a group of round barrows on Broughton Hill (1.4 km), Deserted village (site of) (1.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Beach Barrow's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Beach Barrow stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.