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Ring ditches, barrows and associated enclosures, Port Meadow is a Bronze Age monument complex located in the meadowland northwest of Oxford. The site comprises a series of ring ditches and burial mounds arranged across the flat floodplain landscape, representing a significant prehistoric burial and ceremonial focus. These earthworks, typical of Bronze Age funerary practice, would originally have been more prominent in the landscape than their current degraded state suggests. The monument demonstrates the importance of Port Meadow as a zone of ritual activity and elite burial during the second millennium BC.
Ring ditches, barrows and associated enclosures, Port Meadow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010717. View the official record →
Ring ditches, barrows and associated enclosures, Port Meadow is a Bronze Age monument complex located in the meadowland northwest of Oxford. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010717.
Ring ditches, barrows and associated enclosures, Port Meadow 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 1010717.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Godstow Abbey: a Benedictine nunnery, associated earthworks, leats and bridge, immediately south of Godstow Bridge (0.9 km), Seacourt medieval settlement 760m west of Manor Farm, Binsey (1.7 km), Swing bridge, LNWR Station (2.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring ditches, barrows and associated enclosures, Port Meadow'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.
Ring ditches, barrows and associated enclosures, Port Meadow stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.