Coombe Hill

Also known as:
Combe Hill
Nearest town:
Eastbourne (6km ESE)
OS reference:
TQ574022
OS sheet:
199
Latitude:
50° 47' 50.49 N
Longitude:
0° 14' 1.5 E
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Images

Image of Coombe Hill (Causewayed Enclosure) by juamei

Open Source Environment agency LIDAR

Image credit: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015.
juamei
juamei Jan 3, 2016
Image of Coombe Hill (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

The disc barrow adjacent to the enclosure looking West

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Apr 15, 2010
Image of Coombe Hill (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

Inner banks of the enclosure looking West along the South Downs

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Apr 15, 2010
Image of Coombe Hill (Causewayed Enclosure) by Jonnee23

Tumulus at grid ref TQ577009 on the South Downs Way, south east from Bourne Hill

Jonnee23
Jonnee23 Oct 4, 2006
Image of Coombe Hill (Causewayed Enclosure) by Jonnee23

Tumulus at grid ref TQ579020, Cold Crouch, south east from Coombe Hill (seen on the left)

Jonnee23
Jonnee23 Oct 4, 2006
Image of Coombe Hill (Causewayed Enclosure) by Jonnee23

The disc barrow by the Coombe Hill Neolithic enclosure looking south east

Jonnee23
Jonnee23 Oct 4, 2006
Image of Coombe Hill (Causewayed Enclosure) by Jonnee23

View from the middle of the enclosure, looking east to the east bowl barrow, the disc barrow on the centre right. The enclosure and banks are hard to portray via photo, but this gives an idea of the surrounding countryside.

Jonnee23
Jonnee23 Oct 4, 2006
Image of Coombe Hill (Causewayed Enclosure) by Jonnee23

panorama view of the bowl barrow to the east of the Coombe Hill Neolithic enclosure

Jonnee23
Jonnee23 Oct 4, 2006
Image of Coombe Hill (Causewayed Enclosure) by Cursuswalker

Not an exciting photo, but the best I could get at the time of the inner ditch and bank, looking, I think, south from the eastern entrance.

Taken August 1998

Image credit: Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker Aug 30, 2003

Articles

Coombe Hill

Jonnee23
Jonnee23 Oct 4, 2006

Coombe Hill (or The Combe) certainly warrants a visit if you are in the South East Of England. I found it best to approach walking from the village of Jevington and following the South Downs Way, and if armed with an OS map (recommended!) you will notice there are plenty of other barrows marked on the way.

The top of the Hill has spectacular views and the three barrows are indeed impressive and extremely well looked after, so much so that the disc barrow is easy to define. If you walk south east then south from the enclosure you can be treated to further barrows, that are less impressive but worth a visit. I got to the large one at the top of Bourne Hill (TQ577009) before heading back to Jevington after an exhilarating and breathtaking walk on a fab summers’ day in the East Sussex countryside.

Coombe Hill

Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker Aug 30, 2003

A double circle Neolithic causewayed camp.

The inner circle can just about be traced all the way around, except where the circles have been interrupted by the downland scarp to the north. A right of way crosses the site, and the double entrances at both east and west can be made out best from this.

Also to east and west, right by the entrance in the case of the latter, are impressively sized Bronze Age round barrows (Impressive for this neck of the woods at least!)

This was the last causewayed camp built on the South Downs and it is roughly contemporary with Avebury Henge, where the Windmill Hill causewayed Camp was being abandoned in favour of the newer style of sacred enclosure, indicating how “backward” the Neolithic culture this far from the plateau of Wiltshire may have been.

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