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Round barrow on Cheselbourne West Down is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Dorset, England. The barrow is a substantial earthwork monument characteristic of the second millennium BC, when such tumuli served as focal points for ritual burial practice across southern Britain. The monument survives as a prominent circular mound within the landscape of West Down, contributing to the known distribution of Bronze Age funerary monuments in the Dorset region. As a scheduled ancient monument, it remains an important archaeological witness to prehistoric burial custom and settlement organisation in Wessex.
Round barrow on Cheselbourne West Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002878. View the official record →
Round barrow on Cheselbourne West Down is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002878.
Round barrow on Cheselbourne West Down 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 1002878.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow N of Boswell's Plantation (7.2 km), Colliton Park Roman house (9.3 km), Henge Enclosure, Conquer Barrow and Barrow Cemetery (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow on Cheselbourne West Down'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 on Cheselbourne West Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.