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Bowl barrow on Bepton Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Sussex, England. The barrow takes the form of a simple mounded earthwork with a roughly circular plan, characteristic of bowl barrows constructed during the Bronze Age. Such monuments typically contained inhumation or cremation burials within a central grave pit, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status and beliefs of the interred individual. The barrow survives as an upstanding archaeological feature and remains of archaeological significance as evidence of Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in the Sussex landscape.
Bowl barrow on Bepton Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009762. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Bepton Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009762.
Bowl barrow on Bepton Down 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 1009762.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A 210m length of Devil's Ditch running east from Chichester Main Road to Pook Lane (8.8 km), Chichester Dyke, earthwork extending 110yds (100m) in Raughmere Copse (8.9 km), Devil's Ditch, section extending 960yds (870m) S of Lavant House (8.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow on Bepton Down'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 on Bepton Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.