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Three of a dispersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, situated within a landscape rich in prehistoric burial activity. The barrows form part of a larger cemetery complex characteristic of the second millennium BC, reflecting the ritual practices and territorial organization of Bronze Age communities in the Wessex region. The individual mounds, created through the accumulation of soil and chalk over inhumed or cremated remains, represent the material expression of elite or community burial conventions typical of the period. This dispersed grouping demonstrates the continuity of funerary practice across an extended area of downland, contributing to the archaeological understanding of settlement patterns and social structures in prehistoric southern England.
Three of a dispersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009887. View the official record →
Three of a dispersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, situated within a landscape rich in prehistoric burial activity. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009887.
Three of a dispersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford 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 1009887.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 530m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down (9.1 km), Bowl barrow 535m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down (9.2 km), Bell barrow and bowl barrow 500m NNW of Long Orchard (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Three of a dispersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford 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.
Three of a dispersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.