Wikipedia / Flowerdown Barrows
Wikipedia / Flowerdown Barrows
Flowerdown Barrows is a Bronze Age Barrow site near Littleton, Winchester, Hampshire, England. It is a scheduled monument looked after by English Heritage.
Description of site
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". The disc barrow is in diameter and contains two circular mounds of and diameter respectively. The larger mound is centrally positioned and has a central hollow. The larger of the two bowl barrows is in diameter and high. The other, situated close to the edge of the disc barrow, is in diameter and only high.
Notes
External links
Flowerdown Barrows site page on The Megalithic Portal.
History of Littleton - including an old aerial photo of the Flowerdown disc barrow.
Satellite view Google Maps view of site.