Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery

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.

[1] There are many prehistoric remains on Cranborne Chase from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.

[3] Many of the barrows were excavated in the early 19th century by Sir Richard Colt Hoare and William Cunnington; the barrows investigated can be identified from Hoare's numbered plan.

Grave goods included beads of amber, glass and faience, and bronze daggers.

[1][4] A partial excavation in 1970 of one bowl barrow revealed a posthole close to its edge, near a pit containing cremated bone and ash; this may have been a support for a cremation pyre.