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A pair of platform barrows on the western side of Kithurst Hill car park is part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery dating to the Bronze Age. These earthwork monuments, consisting of low platforms that once supported burial mounds, represent funerary practices characteristic of the second millennium BCE. The barrows are situated within a wider ceremonial landscape on Kithurst Hill in Sussex, where multiple burial monuments indicate significant ritual and commemorative activity during the Bronze Age. The preservation of these earthworks as archaeological features contributes to understanding settlement patterns and mortuary practices in the South Downs region during prehistoric times.
Pair of platform barrows on the western side of Kithurst Hill car park: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Kithurst Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015724. View the official record →
A pair of platform barrows on the western side of Kithurst Hill car park is part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery dating to the Bronze Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015724.
Pair of platform barrows on the western side of Kithurst Hill car park: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Kithurst 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 1015724.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Deserted medieval settlement at Upper Barpham Farm (3.5 km), Itford Hill style settlement and an Anglo-Saxon barrow field at New Barn Down, 850m north west of Myrtle Grove Farm (3.6 km), Prehistoric flint mine and part of a round barrow cemetery at Blackpatch, 400m north east of Myrtle Grove Farm (4.4 km).
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