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Bowl barrow 150m north west of White Lion Pond, Beddingham Hill, is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the South Downs in East Sussex. The barrow takes the form of a circular earthwork mound characteristic of the bowl barrow type, which represents one of the most common funerary monuments of the Bronze Age period across southern England. Such monuments typically contained inhumations or cremations accompanied by grave goods, though specific details of this example's contents and excavation history are not widely documented in the accessible scholarly record. The site's survival on Beddingham Hill demonstrates the persistence of Bronze Age funerary archaeology across the South Downs landscape.
Bowl barrow 150m north west of White Lion Pond, Beddingham Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014521. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 150m north west of White Lion Pond, Beddingham Hill, is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the South Downs in East Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014521.
Bowl barrow 150m north west of White Lion Pond, Beddingham Hill 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 1014521.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Multiple ring-ditch at Mount Pleasant, Denton (3.4 km), Bowl barrow, the north westernmost barrow of a group of six bowl barrows, forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Rookery Hill (4.9 km), Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Rookery Hill (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 150m north west of White Lion Pond, Beddingham Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bowl barrow 150m north west of White Lion Pond, Beddingham Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.