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Chitterne Down barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire, England. The monument represents the funerary practices of the Bronze Age period, when such barrows served as prominent landscape features marking elite or significant burial sites. The barrow survives as an earthwork mound, though like many such monuments, it has been subject to considerable attrition and modification over the millennia since its construction. Its preservation as a scheduled ancient monument reflects its archaeological value in understanding Bronze Age settlement, social hierarchy, and burial traditions across the Wiltshire chalk downlands.
Chitterne Down barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009935. View the official record →
Chitterne Down barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009935.
Chitterne Down 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 1009935.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Stapleford Castle (7.3 km), East Castle (7.8 km), Little Langford round barrow, N of Upper Farm Down (8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Chitterne Down 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.
Chitterne Down barrow stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.