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Saucer barrow 220m south of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Petersfield Heath barrow group in Hampshire. The monument takes the form of a saucer barrow, a type of low, broad earthwork characteristic of later Bronze Age funerary practice, distinguished by its shallow profile and gentle slopes. The barrow is situated within a landscape rich in prehistoric monuments, reflecting the importance of Petersfield Heath as a focus for burial activity during the Bronze Age period. Like other barrows in this group, it represents evidence of ritual and social practices relating to the commemoration and interment of the dead in prehistoric Hampshire.
Saucer barrow 220m south of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common, part of the Petersfield Heath Group is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016455. View the official record →
Saucer barrow 220m south of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Petersfield Heath barrow group in Hampshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016455.
Saucer barrow 220m south of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common, part of the Petersfield Heath Group 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 1016455.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Romano-British village (5.9 km), Romano-British and Iron Age buildings, field system and hollow ways in the southern part of Holt Down Plantation (6.2 km), Harting Beacon: a hilltop enclosure, Anglo-Saxon burial mound and telegraph station on Beacon and Pen Hills (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Saucer barrow 220m south of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common, part of the Petersfield Heath Group'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.
Saucer barrow 220m south of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common, part of the Petersfield Heath Group stands on Lower Greensand Group, bedrock that formed in the Albian. The rock here is sandstone and mudstone.