Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on the crest of a chalk ridge
running west from Waltham Down. The barrow forms part of a linear round
barrow cemetery consisting of five bowl barrows spread over a distance of
350m. The barrow mound survives as an earthwork 17.5m in diameter and 0.6m
high, a shallow hollow in the centre suggests that it was once partially
excavated.
Surrounding the mound is a ditch from which material was quarried during the
construction of the monument. This has become infilled over the years and now
survives as a buried feature c.3m 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.

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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.

Despite evidence of partial excavation, the bowl barrow on Waltham Down 320m
ESE of the crossroads, survives comparatively well and contains archaeological
remains and environmental evidence relating both to the monument and to the
landscape in which it was constructed.

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Sources

Books and journals
Grinsell, L V, 'Sussex Archaeological Collections' in Sussex Barrows, , Vol. 75, (1934)
Other
Ordnance Survey, SU 91 SW 2A, (1970)

Source: Historic England