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Bowl barrow on Scabes Castle is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Sussex, England. The site represents a characteristic form of burial mound construction from the second millennium BCE, when such earthworks served as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains and functioned as territorial markers across the chalk downlands. The barrow's form and archaeological context place it within the established corpus of prehistoric ceremonial and mortuary monuments that characterise the Sussex landscape, reflecting patterns of settlement and ritual practice during the Bronze Age period.
Bowl barrow on Scabes Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014950. View the official record →
Bowl barrow on Scabes Castle is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014950.
Bowl barrow on Scabes Castle 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 1014950.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Section of Port's Road and barrow on Round Hill, Hangleton (2.4 km), Martin Down style enclosure, bowl barrow, Iron Age hillfort, Romano-British village and associated field system on Thundersbarrow Hill (2.8 km), Old manor house (remains of), Portslade-By-Sea (3.7 km).
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