Flowerdown Barrows

Coordinates: 51°05′29″N 1°20′43″W / 51.091286°N 1.345396°W / 51.091286; -1.345396

Flowerdown Barrows
Type Tumuli
Location Littleton
Coordinates 51°05′29″N 1°20′43″W / 51.0913°N 1.3454°W / 51.0913; -1.3454
OS grid reference SU 45879 31984
Area Hampshire
Owner English Heritage
Official name: Three round barrows 500m WNW of Flowerdown House
Designated 29 Mar 1949
Reference no. 1012690
Location of Flowerdown Barrows in Hampshire

Flowerdown Barrows is an English Heritage Barrow site near Littleton, Winchester, Hampshire, England.

The site has three Bronze Age burial mounds in a much larger cemetery, two bowl barrows and a well-preserved disc barrow which has been described as "the finest in Hampshire".[1] The disc barrow is 28 metres (92 ft) in diameter and containes two circular mounds of 7 metres (23 ft) and 6 metres (20 ft) diameter respectively. The larger mound is centrally positioned and has a central hollow.[2] The larger of the two bowl barrows is 20 metres (66 ft) in diameter and 1 metre (3.3 ft) high. The other, situated close to the edge of the disc barrow, is 8 metres (26 ft) in diameter and only 0.3 metres (0.98 ft) high.[3]

Panorama of the disc barrow at Flowerdown, with the bowl barrow in the background.

Notes

  1. ↑ Thomas, Nicholas. A guide to prehistoric England. London: B. T. Batsford, 1976.
  2. ↑ "Flowerdown Barrows, Littleton, Hampshire". Historic England. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Elliott, Julia. Heritage Unlocked - Guide to free sites in London and the South East. English Heritage. pp. 64–65. ISBN 1 85074 881 0.
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