Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow on a promontory overlooking the sea on the
east coast of the Isle of Wight.
The barrow has a mound which measures 13m in diameter and is c.1m high.
Surrounding the mound is a ditch from which material was quarried during its
construction. This has become partly infilled over the years but can still be
seen as a slight depression on the east side of the mound c.2.7m wide.
Elsewhere it survives as a buried feature.

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.

The bowl barrow on Culver Down survives well and will contain archaeological
remains and environmental evidence relating to the barrow and the landscape in
which it was constructed. This barrow is the only survivor of three barrows
which were in this area.

Source: Historic England