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Six round barrows on Bincombe Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. The barrows form part of a broader landscape of prehistoric burial mounds distributed across the chalk downland, reflecting sustained use of the area for ritual and mortuary practices during the Bronze Age period. Each earthwork represents an individual burial or series of burials, with the grouped arrangement suggesting either contemporary construction or later addition within a designated ceremonial zone. The monument survives as a scheduled ancient monument and remains an important archaeological resource for understanding Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in Dorset.
Six round barrows on Bincombe Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002744. View the official record →
Six round barrows on Bincombe Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002744.
Six round barrows on Bincombe 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 1002744.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Preston Roman villa (3.5 km), Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill (3.9 km), Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole (4.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Six round barrows on Bincombe 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.
Six round barrows on Bincombe Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.