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Bowl barrow south of Newmarket Bottom is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Sussex, England. The monument takes the form of a simple bowl-shaped earthwork, a characteristic funerary structure of the Bronze Age period. Such barrows typically served as communal or individual burial sites and represent an important class of prehistoric monument in the English landscape. The site's survival and official designation reflect its archaeological significance as evidence of Bronze Age settlement and mortuary practice in the region.
Bowl barrow south of Newmarket Bottom is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009047. View the official record →
Bowl barrow south of Newmarket Bottom is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009047.
Bowl barrow south of Newmarket Bottom 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 1009047.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A group of three bowl barrows and an Anglo-Saxon barrow field on The Bostle (1.3 km), Heathy Brow round barrows (3.2 km), Highdole Hill, Romano-British settlement (3.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow south of Newmarket Bottom'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 south of Newmarket Bottom stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.