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The Group of four bowl barrows at the Chantry Post is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated in Sussex. The site comprises four distinct bowl barrows, a common burial form of the Bronze Age period, arranged as a coherent group within the landscape. Such concentrations of barrows often indicate areas of sustained ritual and funerary significance across multiple generations, reflecting the importance of the location to prehistoric communities. The monument survives as earthwork remains and provides evidence for Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in the Sussex region.
Group of four bowl barrows at the Chantry Post is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015713. View the official record →
The Group of four bowl barrows at the Chantry Post is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated in Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015713.
Group of four bowl barrows at the Chantry Post 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 1015713.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Itford Hill style settlement and an Anglo-Saxon barrow field at New Barn Down, 850m north west of Myrtle Grove Farm (2.8 km), Prehistoric flint mine and part of a round barrow cemetery at Blackpatch, 400m north east of Myrtle Grove Farm (3.2 km), Deserted medieval settlement at Upper Barpham Farm (3.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Group of four bowl barrows at the Chantry Post'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.
Group of four bowl barrows at the Chantry Post stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.