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Long Barrow on Beacon Hill is a Neolithic chambered tomb located in Sussex, England. The monument consists of an elongated earthwork characteristic of long barrows constructed during the early Neolithic period, roughly between 4000 and 3000 BCE. Such monuments typically contained stone or timber burial chambers and served as communal repositories for the remains of multiple individuals, reflecting the social and ritual practices of early farming communities in Neolithic Britain. The barrow's preservation on Beacon Hill has made it an important archaeological site for understanding settlement patterns and funerary customs in prehistoric Sussex.
Long Barrow on Beacon Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013067. View the official record →
Long Barrow on Beacon Hill is a Neolithic chambered tomb located in Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013067.
Long Barrow on Beacon Hill 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 1013067.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Long barrow on Beacon Hill, 160m north west of the windmill (0.2 km), A group of three bowl barrows and an Anglo-Saxon barrow field on The Bostle (2.8 km), Bowl barrow on Telscombe Tye, 650m south west of Pedlersburgh (3.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Long Barrow on Beacon Hill'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.
Long Barrow on Beacon Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.