A community project hosted by Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery
Around 4,000 years ago, Early Bronze Age people buried their dead in barrows. 21 barrows survive on Petersfield Heath, showing the significance of the area long before the town existed.
During the four-year project ‘People of the Heath’, archaeologists and volunteers excavated 14 of the Heath barrows. They discovered cremation urns and evidence of a variety of different funeral practices. They also revealed a Stone Age campsite floor with thousands of flint tools and flakes from about 9,000 years ago.
A full publication of the projects findings 'Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities' can be read online free here.
You can also find out more about the project through the People of the Heath Bulletins by clicking the links below:
People of the Heath Project Synopsis
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Bulletin 1 (July 2014)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Bulletin 2 (October 2014)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Bulletin 3 (November 2014)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Geophysical Survey Nov. 2014
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Excavation of Barrow 11 (Jan 2015)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrow - Bulletin 4 (Feb 2015)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Geophysical Survey April 2015
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Bulletin 5 (May 2015)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Bulletin 6 (July 2015)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Geophysical Survey Oct 2015
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Bulletin 7 (November 2015)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Excavation Report April 2016
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Geophysical Survey March 2016
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Cranmer Pond Cemetery Report
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Preliminary Report on Grave Groups (Barrows 11 and 13)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Bulletin 8 (May 2016)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Geophysical Survey June 2016
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Written Scheme of Investigation of Barrows 9,10,11 & 19
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrow - Bulletin 9 (July 2016)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrow - Bulletin 10 (Feb 2017)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrow - Excavation Report of Barrows 8,9,10,11,16,17 and 19 (April 2017)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield's Prehistoric Barrows - Bulletin 11 (June 2017)
Understanding and Conserving Petersfield Prehistoric Barrows - Excavation Report of Barrows 1,4,14 and 19 (April 2018)
Barrows at the Core (2021) Appendix List:
Appendix 8.2 - Log Coffin Special Finds
Appendix 11.1 - Human Remains Data
Appendix 12.3 - Gazzetteer of Mesolithic Assemblages
Appendix 16.1 - Rother Region Barrows Register
Appendix 20.2 - Diagnostic Neolithic Flintwork
Appendix 20.5 - Flintwork Assemblage
Appendix 20.6 - Diagnostic Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age flintwork
Appendix 20.7 - Bronze Age Metal Work