Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on a ridge of the Sussex Downs,
overlooking the River Ouse.
The barrow has a circular mound 10m in diameter and 0.4m high with a
pronounced central hollow, evidence for the partial excavation of the barrow
some time in the past. The mound is surrounded by a ditch from which material
used to construct the barrow was excavated. This has become infilled over the
years, but survives as a buried feature c.2m wide.

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 of partial excavation, the bowl barrow on Itford Hill
survives comparatively well and contains archaeological remains and
environmental evidence relating to the monument and the landscape in which it
was constructed. Around 1km to the east are the remains of Pook's Dyke, a
prehistoric cross dyke (a linear boundary) and a Bronze Age settlement. These
monuments are broadly contemporary and their close association provides
evidence for the relationship between settlement patterns, land division and
burial practice during the period of their construction and use.

Source: Historic England