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Group of three bowl barrows and an Anglo-Saxon mixed cemetery on Summer Down is a Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon archaeological site near Eastdean in East Sussex. The site comprises three Bronze Age bowl barrows, earthworks characteristic of the Early to Middle Bronze Age period, alongside an Anglo-Saxon cemetery containing both inhumation and cremation burials. The co-location of these two distinct archaeological horizons, separated by over a thousand years, reflects the changing patterns of funerary practice and landscape use across the prehistoric and early medieval periods. The site remains visible as earthwork monuments and represents an important survival of burial archaeology in the South Downs region.
Group of three bowl barrows and an Anglo-Saxon mixed cemetery on Summer Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014952. View the official record →
Group of three bowl barrows and an Anglo-Saxon mixed cemetery on Summer Down is a Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon archaeological site near Eastdean in East Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014952.
Group of three bowl barrows and an Anglo-Saxon mixed cemetery on Summer 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 1014952.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Section of Port's Road and barrow on Round Hill, Hangleton (2.7 km), Dovecote at Patcham Court Farm, 80m north west of All Saints Church (3.7 km), Martin Down style enclosure, bowl barrow, Iron Age hillfort, Romano-British village and associated field system on Thundersbarrow Hill (4.8 km).
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