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Bowl barrow 500m west of Firle Beacon is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the South Downs near Firle in East Sussex. The barrow survives as a low earthwork mound characteristic of the bowl barrow type, which represents one of the most common forms of burial monument from the Bronze Age period. Such barrows typically contained inhumation burials and sometimes cremations, serving as focal points for Bronze Age communities on the chalk downland. This example forms part of the wider distribution of prehistoric burial monuments across the South Downs, reflecting patterns of settlement and land use in the second and first millennia before the Common Era.
Bowl barrow 500m west of Firle Beacon is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009962. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 500m west of Firle Beacon is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the South Downs near Firle in East Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009962.
Bowl barrow 500m west of Firle Beacon 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 1009962.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newhaven military fort and lunette battery (6.6 km), Medieval crypt, Church Street (7 km), Oval barrow 200m north east of Exceat Park Centre (7.4 km).
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