THE BRONZE AGE - The Bronze Age Cemetery 3500 Years Ago

Hengistbury Head was used as a cemetery at this time. Large earth mounds (round barrows) were created as burial mounds for people of local importance.

The most impressive of the ten barrows is the bowl barrow to the south of the thatched barn. It contained the ashes of a twenty-five year old woman, a small decorated incense cup, three amber beads, two small gold cones and a pendant with a copper blade set into an amber handle.

Early and Late Bronze Age activity was also discovered recently on the old pitch and putt site adjacent to the golf course. A Late Bronze Age urn with cremated remains was found possibly linking this burial with other barrows on the golf course towards Wick Village. An Early Bronze Age burial with carbonised hazel nuts and crab apples was also found which is unusual and of international significance.

Burial Mound

The Bronze Age Barrow south of the thatched barn.