Oakley Down

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

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A Bronze Age barrow cemetery.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/251814620

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
50.9540967, -1.9759198

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery (2000 BC - AD 100) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)

Oakley Down makes connections with:

None

Oakley Down receives connections from:

None

Place type:
catacomb, cemetery, necropolis

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Related:

Wikidata Group of round barrows on Oakley Down (Q17650587)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Oakley Down: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/251814620> [accessed: 18 May 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/251814620 |title=Places: 251814620 (Oakley Down) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=May 18, 2026 2:51 am |publisher=Pleiades}}