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Bowl barrow 780m south-west of Bignor Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in West Sussex, England. The monument consists of a circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary monument type constructed during the Bronze Age across southern Britain. Such barrows typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods that reflected the status of the deceased. This particular example forms part of the archaeological landscape of the South Downs, an area rich in prehistoric burial monuments that attest to patterns of settlement and ritual practice during the second millennium BCE.
Bowl barrow 780m south-west of Bignor Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010144. View the official record →
Bowl barrow 780m south-west of Bignor Hill is a Bronze Age burial mound located in West Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010144.
Bowl barrow 780m south-west of Bignor 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 1010144.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dalesdown Wood earthworks (3.7 km), Madehurst Wood earthworks (4.3 km), Goblestubbs Copse earthworks (5.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow 780m south-west of Bignor 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 780m south-west of Bignor Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.