Flowerdown Barrows, Littleton, Hampshire

This is one of three Bronze Age barrows, known as Flowerdown Barrows. There is a disc barrow and two bowl barrows. This is the disc barrow. It is 28 metres in diameter and has two circular mounds within it. The central mound is seven metres in diameter and has a central hollow. The second lies to the southwest of the centre and is six metres in diameter. It has been described as the largest and finest barrow of its kind in Hampshire. Barrows such as this were Bronze Age tombs where one or more people were buried within the barrow. This group of three barrows are thought to be what remains of a larger ‘barrow cemetery’, the other having since been destroyed. This site is now in the care of English Heritage (2010). Find out more.

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Hampshire Littleton

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Prehistoric (to AD42)

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Bronze Age objects found at Beeston Castle, including axe heads and a knife. Beeston Castle is located on a rocky crag above the Cheshire plain. The site has been occupied since prehistoric times and excavations have revealed remains spanning the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman periods. Beeston Castle itself was begun in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blundeville, the Sixth Earl of Chester. These objects are now in the care of English Heritage (2011).
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Flowerdown Barrows, Littleton, Hampshire

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