Details

The monument includes a small bowl barrow situated immediately below the
summit of a natural prominence at the southern end of Ivinghoe Hills. The
barrow mound survives as a well defined mound 5.5m in diameter and 0.4m high
which appears intact and undisturbed. Although no longer visible at ground
level, a ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of
the monument, surrounds the mound. This has become infilled over the years
but survives as a buried feature which can be estimated from the mound size as
being 1m 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

Round barrow cemeteries date to the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC). They comprise
closely-spaced groups of up to 30 round barrows - rubble or earthen mounds
covering single or multiple burials. Most cemeteries developed over a
considerable period of time, often many centuries, and in some cases acted as
a focus for burials as late as the early medieval period. They exhibit
considerable diversity of burial rite, plan and form, frequently including
several different types of round barrow, occasionally associated with earlier
long barrows. Where large scale investigation has been undertaken around them,
contemporary or later "flat" burials between the barrow mounds have often been
revealed. Round barrow cemeteries occur across most of lowland Britain, with a
marked concentration in Wessex. In some cases, they are clustered around other
important contemporary monuments such as henges. Often occupying prominent
locations, they are a major historic element in the modern landscape, whilst
their diversity and their longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the variety of beliefs and social organisation amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving or partly-surviving examples are
considered worthy of protection.

The small barrow on Beacon Hill survives intact with no evidence for
disturbance of the mound. The close proximity of other monuments of the same
period adds to the significance of the site.

Source: Historic England