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Latitude: 50.8339 / 50°50'2"N
Longitude: -0.008 / 0°0'28"W
OS Eastings: 540371.047516
OS Northings: 105709.780578
OS Grid: TQ403057
Mapcode National: GBR KQF.QSG
Mapcode Global: FRA B6WW.LQT
Entry Name: Round barrow NW of Mill Hill
Scheduled Date: 15 July 1966
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1002263
English Heritage Legacy ID: ES 259
County: East Sussex
Civil Parish: Rodmell
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Rodmell St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Bowl Barrow on Front Hill, 495m NNW of Breaky Bottom Farm.
Source: Historic England
This record was the subject of a minor enhancement on 26 February 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 the south-east chalk downland slope of Front Hill, overlooking Breaky Bottom, in the South Downs. It has been partly levelled by cultivation but survives as a broadly circular mound, 9m in diameter and less than 0.2m high. The mound was originally at least 0.6m high. A surrounding quarry ditch, from which material to construct the mound was derived, is not visible but will survive as a buried feature. The barrow is shown on OS maps of 1876, 1899, 1910 and 1930 (1:2500).
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.
Despite part levelling by cultivation, the bowl barrow on Front Hill, 495m NNW of Breaky Bottom Farm survives as a partially upstanding and buried feature and will contain archaeological and environmental information relating to the mound and the landscape in which it was constructed.
Source: Historic England
Other
NMR TQ40NW38. PastScape 405963.
Source: Historic England
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