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Latitude: 50.8964 / 50°53'47"N
Longitude: -0.1098 / 0°6'35"W
OS Eastings: 533025.314192
OS Northings: 112473.650422
OS Grid: TQ330124
Mapcode National: GBR KPJ.P2Z
Mapcode Global: FRA B6NQ.WK2
Entry Name: Round barrow S of Ditchling Beacon
Scheduled Date: 7 September 1967
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1002254
English Heritage Legacy ID: ES 285
County: East Sussex
Civil Parish: Westmeston
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Ditchling, Streat and Westmeston
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Bowl barrow south of Ditchling Beacon, 868m north of High Park Farmhouse.
Source: Historic England
This record was the subject of a minor enhancement on 3 March 2015. This record has been generated from an "old county number" (OCN) scheduling record. These are monuments that were not reviewed under the Monuments Protection Programme and are some of our oldest designation records.
The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on a ridge of chalk downland overlooking North Bottom on the South Downs, north of Brighton. The monument has been levelled by ploughing and survives as a buried archaeological feature. In 1983 the barrow had a roughly circular-shaped mound at least 0.9m high. This is now visible as a soil mark about 18m in diameter. It will also have included a surrounding quarry ditch from which material to construct the mound was derived, which will survive as a buried feature.
Source: Historic England
Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often occupying prominent locations, they are a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period.
Although it has been levelled by ploughing, the bowl barrow south of Ditchling Beacon survives as a buried feature containing archaeological information and environmental evidence relating to the barrow and the landscape in which it was constructed.
Source: Historic England
Other
East Sussex HER MES1291. NMR TQ31SW18. PastScape 403070
Source: Historic England
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