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Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery

Bronze Age barrow cemetery, Dorset, England

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Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery is a group of Bronze Age round barrows on Cranborne Chase, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the village of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument.

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Early 19th-century excavations

19th century

Partial excavation 1970

1970

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United Kingdom

Coordinates

50.95° N, -1.98° E