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This is a list of cemeteries in England still in existence. Only cemeteries which are notable and can be visited are included. Churchyards and graveyards that belong to churches and are still in existence are not included. Ancient burial grounds are excluded. Cemeteries in London and Brighton and Hove have separate lists.
Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery, group of round barrows in Dorset. Pentre Ifan, Neolithic dolmen. The Poind and his Man, burial mound and standing stone in Northumberland. Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery, group of round barrows in Dorset. Seven Barrows, site of bowl barrows, bell barrows, saucer barrows and disc barrows. Spinsters' Rock, Neolithic dolmen.
The Pocklington Iron Age burial ground is a prehistoric cemetery discovered in 2014 on the outskirts of Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.Excavations carried out on an ongoing basis since then, have uncovered more than 160 skeletons and more than 70 square barrows thought to date to the Middle Iron Age that are attributed to the Arras culture, an ancient British culture of ...
Mucking is an archaeological site near the village of Mucking in southern Essex.The site contains remains dating from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages—a period of some 3,000 years—and the Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon features are particularly notable.
Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery was a place of burial. It is located on Long Hill in the town of Dover in Kent, South East England. Belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period, it was part of the much wider tradition of burial in Early Anglo-Saxon England. Buckland was an inhumation-only cemetery, with no evidence of cremation. The cemetery was on a ...
The findings, published in a series of articles in Current Archaeology, come from one of the largest ancient DNA projects in Europe involving 460 people who were buried in graves between 200AD and ...
The Aston Valley Barrow Cemetery, or Ashton Valley Barrow Cemetery, is a group of Bronze Age bowl barrow and bell barrow tumuli on the south facing edge of Codford Down on the west side of the valley of the Chitterne Brook, within the civil parish of Codford, in Wiltshire, England.
Archaeologists discovered an ancient graveyard with mostly children interred between 800 and 200 BC. With the remains of nearly 40 children, all under age 6, experts don’t know the reason behind ...