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The Mill Ball is a bowl barrow located south of Bury Hill in Sussex, England. Dating to the Bronze Age, it represents a burial monument of the type commonly constructed during the second millennium BCE across southern England. The barrow survives as a distinctive earthwork mound, characteristic of bowl barrows which comprise a simple hemispherical or slightly flattened dome of earth raised over a central burial. As a scheduled ancient monument, it forms part of the archaeological landscape of the Sussex Weald and contributes to our understanding of Bronze Age funerary practices and settlement patterns in the region.
The Mill Ball: a bowl barrow south of Bury Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008213. View the official record →
The Mill Ball is a bowl barrow located south of Bury Hill in Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008213.
The Mill Ball: a bowl barrow south of Bury 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 1008213.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including War Dyke entrenchment in Whiteways Plantation and South Wood (1 km), Dalesdown Wood earthworks (1.8 km), Madehurst Wood earthworks (3.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The Mill Ball: a bowl barrow south of Bury 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.
The Mill Ball: a bowl barrow south of Bury Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.