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Horse Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Wiltshire, England. The barrow forms part of the significant concentration of funerary monuments characteristic of the Wiltshire chalklands during the Bronze Age period, when such earthen mounds served as prominent communal or elite burial places within the prehistoric landscape. The site's physical form and archaeological context reflect the ritual and social practices of Bronze Age communities in southern England, though specific details of its construction and contents remain within the established archaeological record of Wiltshire's barrow landscape.
Horse Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005610. View the official record →
Horse Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005610.
Horse 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 1005610.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Fussell's long barrow (2.9 km), Roman earthwork (4.6 km), Clarendon Palace (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Horse 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.
Horse Barrow stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.