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Duncton Common round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial ground located in West Sussex, England. The site comprises multiple round barrows distributed across the common, representing typical funerary monuments of the Bronze Age period, roughly 2200 to 700 BC. These earthen mounds would have served as burial places for individuals of social status within prehistoric communities, and their presence on the common indicates the area's significance as a burial landscape during antiquity. The barrow cemetery survives as an important archaeological monument testifying to Bronze Age settlement and mortuary practices in the Weald region.
Duncton Common round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009329. View the official record →
Duncton Common round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial ground located in West Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009329.
Duncton Common round barrow cemetery 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 1009329.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow reused as moot mound in Barkhale Wood (6.6 km), Bowl barrow 430m north east of Gumber Farm (6.7 km), The Mill Ball: a bowl barrow south of Bury Hill (8.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Duncton Common round barrow cemetery'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.
Duncton Common round barrow cemetery stands on Lower Greensand Group, bedrock that formed in the Albian. The rock here is sandstone and mudstone.