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This pair of platform barrows is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery located on Kithurst Hill in West Sussex. The barrows are situated on the western side of the car park and represent the funerary practices of prehistoric communities, dating to the Bronze Age period when such mounded burial structures were constructed across the South Downs landscape. The platform form indicates a specific construction technique characteristic of Bronze Age barrow building in this region, where earth was deliberately raised to create elevated burial platforms. As components of a larger cemetery complex on Kithurst Hill, these barrows testify to the sustained use of this elevated location as a focal point for burial and ritual activity over successive Bronze Age generations.
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 →
This pair of platform barrows is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery located on Kithurst Hill in West Sussex. 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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Pair of platform barrows on the western side of Kithurst Hill car park: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Kithurst Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.