Scheduled MonumentsEnglandPair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Sullington Warren

Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Sullington Warren

England
List entry 1014956
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1014956
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.17 hectares
Grid reference
TQ 09504 14319
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

The Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Sullington Warren in Sussex, England. These earthworks form part of a round barrow cemetery that demonstrates the funerary practices and settlement patterns of Bronze Age communities in the region. Bowl barrows, characterised by their simple hemispherical mound form without surrounding ditches or internal structures, represent one of the most common burial monument types of the Bronze Age. The cemetery's survival as an archaeological landscape preserves evidence of prehistoric burial activity and the organisation of Bronze Age society across the South Downs.

Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Sullington Warren is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014956. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Sullington Warren?

The Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Sullington Warren in Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014956.

Who is responsible for protecting Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Sullington Warren?

Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Sullington Warren 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 1014956.

What other scheduled monuments are near Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Sullington Warren?

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 (5.2 km), Prehistoric flint mine and part of a round barrow cemetery at Blackpatch, 400m north east of Myrtle Grove Farm (5.5 km), Flint mine and part of a cross dyke 300m south east of Tolmare Farm (5.8 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Sullington Warren

Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Sullington Warren stands on Lower Greensand Group, bedrock that formed in the Albian. The rock here is sandstone and mudstone.

The wider landscape

Around Pair of bowl barrows 280m SE of Trinity Methodist Church, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Sullington Warren

ChichesterRoman town · ~15.7 milesFishbourne Roman PalaceArchaeological site · ~17.2 miles