Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on a chalk ridge which forms part
of the Sussex Downs. The barrow has a circular mound c.13m in diameter and up
to 0.75m high with a central hollow, indicating past part excavation. 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.

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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 200m west of Chanctonbury Ring hillfort survives well and will
contain archaeological remains and enviromental evidence relating to the
monument and the landscape in which it was constructed. The monument forms
part of a group of prehistoric, Roman and early medieval earthworks situated
on Chanctonbury Hill, including a hillfort, Romano-Celtic temple, two cross
dykes and a number of round barrows and hlaews or Saxon barrows, which are the
subjects of separate schedulings. The close association of these monuments
will rovide important evidence for the changing relationships between
ceremonial and burial practices and land division in this area of downland
over a period of c.1,500 years.

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Sources

Books and journals
Grinsell, L, 'Sussex Archaeological Collections' in Sussex in the Bronze Age, , Vol. 75, (1934), 253

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