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Barrow field on Breach Down, Derringstone, is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Kent, England. The site consists of a barrow or tumulus, characteristic of funerary monuments constructed during the Bronze Age period when such earthworks served as communal or high-status burial places. The monument is situated on Breach Down, which forms part of the landscape where multiple prehistoric burial mounds are distributed across the surrounding terrain. As a scheduled monument and designated heritage asset, the barrow field represents an important archaeological record of Bronze Age burial practice in south-eastern England.
Barrow field on Breach Down, Derringstone is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012967. View the official record →
Barrow field on Breach Down, Derringstone, is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Kent, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012967.
Barrow field on Breach Down, Derringstone is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1012967.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow south east of Rectory Lane (1.8 km), Bowl barrow 350m south west of Upper Digges Farm (1.9 km), Anglo-Saxon barrow field and prehistoric linear earthwork on Barham Downs (2.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Barrow field on Breach Down, Derringstone's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Barrow field on Breach Down, Derringstone stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.