Scheduled MonumentsEnglandBowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm, forming part of Western Brow round barrow cemetery

Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm, forming part of Western Brow round barrow cemetery

England
List entry 1014637
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1014637
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.03 hectares
Grid reference
TQ 34284 12881
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Western Brow round barrow cemetery near Ditchling in East Sussex. The monument is a simple bowl-shaped earthwork typical of burial practices during the Bronze Age, when such mounds were constructed as communal and individual graves across southern England. As part of a larger cemetery complex, it demonstrates the concentrated ritual and funerary landscape of the second and early first millennia BC. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork and is protected as a scheduled ancient monument, preserving evidence of prehistoric settlement and burial traditions in the South Downs region.

Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm, forming part of Western Brow round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014637. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm, forming part of Western Brow round barrow cemetery?

Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the Western Brow round barrow cemetery near Ditchling in East Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014637.

Who is responsible for protecting Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm, forming part of Western Brow round barrow cemetery?

Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm, forming part of Western Brow round barrow cemetery 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 1014637.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm, forming part of Western Brow round barrow cemetery?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A cross-ridge dyke and part of an adjoining cross-ridge dyke meeting at Juggs Road near Falmer Bottom (6.1 km), Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon barrow cemeteries south of Juggs Road (6.3 km), Bowl barrow south of Newmarket Bottom (6.7 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Legal
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm, forming part of Western Brow round barrow cemetery

Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm, forming part of Western Brow round barrow cemetery stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Bowl barrow 750m south east of Westmeston Farm, forming part of Western Brow round barrow cemetery

Battle of Lewes 1264Battle (1264) · ~3.5 miles