This is a multi-period funerary and communication complex on Woolmer Forest in east Hampshire, comprising a small group of round barrows alongside a stretch of the Roman road from Chichester (Noviomagus) to Silchester (Calleva), flanked by hollow ways representing later route alignments. The barrows are likely Romano-British in date (1st–3rd century AD), a tradition well attested across the Hampshire–Surrey–Sussex Weald, though earlier prehistoric origins for some of the mounds cannot be excluded without excavation.
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The site illustrates the common Romano-British practice of placing barrow burials prominently beside major roads, where they served both as conspicuous funerary monuments and as territorial markers; its position on the Chichester–Silchester road, a key trans-Wealden artery, gave the cemetery visibility to travellers moving between two civitas capitals. The associated hollow ways also document the long persistence of this corridor as a routeway through the heathland of Woolmer Forest.
The monument is known principally from earthwork survey rather than excavation, with the barrows surviving as low mounds on the heath and the Roman road traceable as an agger with parallel hollow ways adjacent. No published excavation assemblage is recorded for this specific group, so the dating and contents of the barrows remain inferred from regional parallels such as the Romano-British barrow cemeteries at Holbury and elsewhere in the
This is a multi-period funerary and communication complex on Woolmer Forest in east Hampshire, comprising a small group of round barrows alongside a stretch of the Roman road from Chichester (Noviomagus) to Silchester (Calleva), flanked by hollow ways representing later route alignments. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a cemetery site from the Roman period in Britain.
Round barrow cemetery, Roman road and hollow ways 200m south west of Woolmer Cottages is classified as a Roman cemetery — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including River Wey aqueduct, Bramshott Court (5 km), Roman road at Chapel Common (5.3 km), River Wey aqueduct, Radford Bridge, Liphook (5.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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