Where several contemporary round barrows are grouped together, the area is referred to as a barrow cemetery.

There are few examples of these possible execution cemeteries from the early Anglo-Saxon period, with one exception being the barrow cemetery at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk.

Also similar to the Yorkshire Wolds was the identification of square barrow cemeteries which sometimes appeared to be associated with trackways.

Heath Wood barrow cemetery is a Viking burial site near Ingleby, Derbyshire.

There is also a probable link between the likely neolithic causewayed enclosure and the surrounding barrow cemetery, which would have followed later.

A 1993 excavation in Leicestershire revealed a small barrow cemetery which included a pit with a hoard of Early Bronze Age objects.

There are sixteen Anglo-Saxon barrows in two barrow cemeteries in the centre and the north of the site.

There is an ancient barrow cemetery nearby: ten barrows still exist and others have been destroyed.

Later Bronze Age sites such as the barrow cemeteries on Oakley and Wyke Downs appear to have respected the presence of the Cursus.

There is evidence of a prehistoric enclosure system and Anglo-Saxon barrow cemetery on the site, which have been excavated by archaeologists.