Oakley Down, Wimborne St Giles, Dorset

Oakley Down, Wimborne St Giles, Dorset

Photograph taken March 1990 © Crown copyright. Historic England Archive ref: nmr 4503/29

An aerial view of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery on Oakley Down. Barrows are mounds of earth or stone constructed over prehistoric tombs.

Location

Dorset Wimborne St Giles

Period

Prehistoric (to AD42)

Themes

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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Stone Age to Iron Age: Part 2 - The Bronze Age

Tags

earthwork archaeology remains barrow bronze age burial mound aerial view prehistoric (to ad42)