I pass this Round Barrow cemetery on Oakley Down everyday on the way to work. These Bronze Age Burial mounds are at least 4000 years old and mark the introduction of new burial practices into the country. A single body was placed beneath the mound of earth often with grave goods including the first metal objects.
It was the antiquarian William Stukeley in the 18th Century who first noted that the Roman Road called the Ackling Dyke cut through one of the disc barrows in the cemetery. This added to the growing body of evidence which showed that there had been a lengthy pre-roman occupation of the British Isles.
Its near the junction with the B3081 and the A354 at the Sixpenny Handley roundabout so keep a careful eye out when you next drive by.
I pass this Round Barrow cemetery on Oakley Down everyday on the way to work. These Bronze Age Burial mounds are at least 4000 years old and mark the introduction of new burial practices into the country. A single body was placed beneath the mound of earth often with grave goods including the first metal objects. 
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