Wolstonbury Bowl Barrow

Nearest town:
Burgess Hill (6km NNE)
OS reference:
TQ286134
OS sheet:
198
Latitude:
50° 54' 18.5 N
Longitude:
0° 10' 14.83 W
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Images

Image of Wolstonbury Bowl Barrow (Round Barrow) by GLADMAN

The track heads straight for the bowl barrow... or what remains of it. Wolstonbury rises to the right.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 11, 2011
Image of Wolstonbury Bowl Barrow (Round Barrow) by A R Cane

The bowl barrow looking north with the top of Wolstonbury just in sight to the right.

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Nov 14, 2008
Image of Wolstonbury Bowl Barrow (Round Barrow) by A R Cane

The cross ridge dyke that comes up the hill from the south viewed from the barrow.

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Nov 14, 2008
Image of Wolstonbury Bowl Barrow (Round Barrow) by danielspaniel

Peering into the raided center of the barrow, looking SE towards Brighton and the coast

Image credit: Daniel Hyndman
danielspaniel
danielspaniel Jul 6, 2005
Image of Wolstonbury Bowl Barrow (Round Barrow) by danielspaniel

Wolstonbury Bowl Barrow viewed from the eastern section of the cross ridge dyke

Image credit: Daniel Hyndman
danielspaniel
danielspaniel Jul 6, 2005

Articles

Wolstonbury Bowl Barrow

danielspaniel
danielspaniel Jul 6, 2005

Like so many, the apparent bowl barrow on Wolstonbury has been raided and flattened by the plough. It lies on farm land just to the east of the main track that leads to the hill from the south, at the kink in the ‘cross ridge dyke’.
While it seems to be sited across the northern bank of the linear ditch and so appears later than the dyke itself, this may be a false impression. The barrow has been so badly disrupted (presumably by an unrecorded antiquarian investigation) that it is possible that excavated soil has been thrown over the linear earthwork.
It is also possible that the round mound could represent the mutilated remains of a later fire beacon mound. (But let’s keep that quiet until someone proves it, eh?)

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