Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow, one of a group of five barrows forming a
linear round barrow cemetery running NNW-SSE along the crest of a ridge in an
area of chalk downland. The barrow is visible as a mound 14m in diameter and
1m high. Surrounding this is a ditch from which material was quarried during
the construction of the monument. This is no longer visible from ground level,
having become infilled over the years, but survives as a buried feature c.2.5m
wide.
Excluded from the scheduling is a marker stone on the top of the mound,
although the ground beneath it 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.

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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.

As part of a linear round barrow cemetery, and a wider concentration of Bronze
Age burial mounds, the bowl barrow 230m south-west of Further Plantation
contributes to a valuable insight into the nature and scale of human
occupation in the area during the Bronze Age period.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Books and journals
Grinsell, L V, 'Sussex Archaeological Collections' in Sussex Barrows, , Vol. 75, (1934), 274
Other
Title: TQ 50 SE 30
Source Date: 1973
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Source: Historic England