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The Five Marys round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. The site comprises a group of round barrows arranged in close proximity to one another, typical of Bronze Age funerary practices in southern England during the second millennium BCE. These earthen mounds would have served as burial places for individuals of social standing within their communities, with graves often containing cremated or inhumed remains accompanied by grave goods. The cemetery demonstrates the importance of barrow clustering in Bronze Age Dorset, where family or communal burial grounds were established and used over extended periods.
The Five Marys round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013344. View the official record →
The Five Marys round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013344.
The Five Marys 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 1013344.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wardstone Barrow: a bowl barrow on the Dorset coastal ridge 300m south of Chideock Farm (2.9 km), Bowl barrow 660m south of Chaldon Down Buildings: part of the Chaldon Down round barrow cemetery (3 km), Bowl barrow 650m south of Chaldon Down Buildings: part of the Chaldon Down round barrow cemetery (3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The Five Marys 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.
The Five Marys round barrow cemetery stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.