Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on the crest of a rise in an area
of sand overlooking the valley of the River Medway. The barrow has a mound 20m
in diameter and 2.7m high with a slight hollow in the top suggesting that it
was once partially excavated. Surrounding the mound is a ditch from which
material was quarried during the construction of the monument. This is no
longer visible at ground level, having become infilled over the years, and now
survives as a buried feature c.3m wide.
Excluded from the scheduling are the pond and all fencing, although the ground
beneath these features is included.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

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 superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. 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
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.

Despite evidence for partial excavation, the bowl barrow 25m east of The Mount
survives comparatively well and contains archaeological remains and
environmental evidence relating to the monument and the landscape in which it
was constructed.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
TQ 54 NW 7, (1962)

Source: Historic England