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Long Barrow on Windover Hill is a Neolithic burial monument situated on the South Downs near Alfriston in East Sussex. The barrow is aligned east-west and represents a characteristic example of the long barrow type characteristic of early farming communities in southern Britain during the fourth millennium BCE. The site has been significantly damaged by ploughing over centuries, which has reduced its original height and obscured its structural details, though the basic earthwork remains visible as an elongated mound. Archaeological investigation has confirmed its function as a communal burial monument, a building type that served to consolidate social identity and territorial claims among the earliest agricultural settlers of the region.
Long Barrow on Windover Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012797. View the official record →
Long Barrow on Windover Hill is a Neolithic burial monument situated on the South Downs near Alfriston in East Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012797.
Long Barrow on Windover 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 1012797.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval farmstead and regular aggregate field system, 805m west of Crapham Barn (6.5 km), Pair of bowl barrows on Baily's Hill (6.6 km), Two bowl barrows south of Pashley (6.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Long Barrow on Windover Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Long Barrow on Windover Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.