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Round barrow cemetery south of New Barn Farm is a Bronze Age burial site located near the Knowlton Circles in Dorset, England. The cemetery comprises multiple round barrows typical of funerary monuments erected during the Bronze Age, when such burial mounds served as focal points for ritual and commemoration within the landscape. The barrows form part of the wider ceremonial complex associated with the Neolithic henge monuments at Knowlton, indicating sustained ritual use of this area across several millennia. The site demonstrates the importance of the Knowlton locality as a centre of religious and burial practice from Neolithic times through the Bronze Age.
Round barrow cemetery south of New Barn Farm, associated with the Knowlton Circles is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020582. View the official record →
Round barrow cemetery south of New Barn Farm is a Bronze Age burial site located near the Knowlton Circles in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020582.
Round barrow cemetery south of New Barn Farm, associated with the Knowlton Circles 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 1020582.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earth circles S of King Down (8.2 km), A bell barrow and a bowl barrow at St Michael's Middle School 60m west of the school buildings (8.5 km), Badbury Rings (8.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow cemetery south of New Barn Farm, associated with the Knowlton Circles'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.
Round barrow cemetery south of New Barn Farm, associated with the Knowlton Circles stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.