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Popham Beacons is a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery located in Hampshire, England, comprising multiple burial mounds of Prehistoric date. The site represents a significant concentration of funerary monuments typical of Bronze Age ceremonial landscapes, reflecting the ritual and burial practices of communities in southern England during the second millennium before present. The barrows at Popham Beacons demonstrate the characteristic earthwork construction of the Bronze Age period, with their distinctive mounded forms serving as enduring markers of ancient settlement and social organization across the Hampshire landscape.
Popham Beacons round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017887. View the official record →
Popham Beacons is a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery located in Hampshire, England, comprising multiple burial mounds of Prehistoric date. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017887.
Popham Beacons round barrow cemetery 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 1017887.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Iron Age settlement (6.7 km), Multi-period site in Micheldever Wood (7.2 km), Multi-period site in Itchen Wood (7.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Popham Beacons round barrow cemetery'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.
Popham Beacons round barrow cemetery stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.