Heath Wood barrow cemetery

Heath Wood barrow cemetery is a Viking burial site near Ingleby, Derbyshire.

Heath Wood contains a series of 59 barrows which is a Viking burial site near Ingleby, Derbyshire.

[1] It is believed to be a war cemetery of the Viking Great Army which arrived in the area in 873 A.D.

This wood is currently leased by the Forestry Commission from the Church Commissioners and it is designated "Derbyshire 101" as a scheduled monument.

In the eighteenth century Heath Wood was actually a field and the growth of woodland has only happened since then.

One entrance