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Row Down round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial ground located in Hampshire, comprising multiple round barrows arranged across the landscape. The site represents a significant concentration of funerary monuments dating to the Bronze Age period, when such barrow cemeteries served as focal points for successive burial practices and land use. The individual barrows at Row Down demonstrate the typical morphology of Bronze Age round mounds constructed over inhumed or cremated remains, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the social status of the deceased. Such cemetery sites are important archaeological resources for understanding Bronze Age settlement patterns, burial practices, and social organisation in southern England.
Row Down round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013132. View the official record →
Row Down round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial ground located in Hampshire, comprising multiple round barrows arranged across the landscape. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013132.
Row Down 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 1013132.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bell barrow 360m south-west of Ipers Bridge Farm (1.2 km), Bowl barrow 660m south-west of Pitts Copse Farm (1.7 km), Bowl barrow 480m west of Glydia Farm (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Row Down 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.
Row Down round barrow cemetery stands on Solent Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is clay, silt and sand.