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Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery
50.9542° N, -1.9753° E
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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
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Partial excavation 1970
1970
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