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Bowl barrow at Kithurst Hill car park is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Kithurst Hill in Sussex, England. The monument is a simple bowl barrow, the most common form of Bronze Age funerary monument, consisting of an earthen mound raised over a central burial. The site is situated within a broader landscape of round barrows that attest to the ritual and burial practices of Bronze Age communities in the South Downs region. The monument is protected as a scheduled ancient monument under the National Heritage List for England (NHLE reference 1016408).
Bowl barrow at Kithurst Hill car park: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Kithurst Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016408. View the official record →
Bowl barrow at Kithurst Hill car park is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Kithurst Hill in Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016408.
Bowl barrow at Kithurst Hill car park: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Kithurst 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 1016408.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Deserted medieval settlement at Upper Barpham Farm (3.6 km), Prehistoric flint mine and part of a round barrow cemetery at Blackpatch, 400m north east of Myrtle Grove Farm (4.3 km), Burpham camp (5 km).
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Bowl barrow at Kithurst Hill car park: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Kithurst Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.