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A group of round barrows on Ridgeway is a Bronze Age funerary monument complex located in Dorset. The barrows represent burial structures dating to the second millennium BC, when such earthworks served as communal and individual sepulchres for the prehistoric populations of southern Britain. The site comprises multiple mounded earthworks distributed across the landscape, characteristic of the barrow cemetery type common to downland regions during the Bronze Age. These monuments preserve evidence of early burial practices and settlement patterns in the Dorset landscape and contribute to understanding of prehistoric mortuary traditions in this region.
Group of round barrows on Ridgeway is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002760. View the official record →
A group of round barrows on Ridgeway is a Bronze Age funerary monument complex located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002760.
Group of round barrows on Ridgeway 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 1002760.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields (4.6 km), Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole (5.2 km), Langton Cross: a wayside cross 850m south west of Tatton House (5.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Group of round barrows on Ridgeway'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.
Group of round barrows on Ridgeway stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.