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Warren Tumuli and Cross Dyke
Date Added: 26th Sep 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Warren Tumuli and Cross Dyke submitted by jonm on 26th Sep 2012. OS Mound located at 50.76150,0.25114. Not recorded by Ordinance Survey as being a tumulus.
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Log Text: The two main tumuli shown on OS are inaccessible. Although difficult to see from photo, the outline of the mounds appears to exist when seen from roadway.
Well Combe Tumuli
Date Added: 20th Nov 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Well Combe Tumuli submitted by jonm on 20th Nov 2012. Tumulus A of Well Coombe group (highest)
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Log Text: 3 tumuli: one destroyed
West Brow Field System
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2012
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2012. My rating: Access 3
West Brow Field System submitted by jonm on 22nd Nov 2012. General view of fields (recorded as field system) from local high point
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Log Text: Recorded this because happened to be in the area
Wilmington Hill Tumulus
Date Added: 28th Sep 2012
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Wilmington Hill Tumulus submitted by jonm on 28th Sep 2012. View from rear near top
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Log Text: Barrow, possibly flat topped but seems to have a curve
Windover Hill
Date Added: 27th Sep 2012
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Windover Hill submitted by jonm on 24th Sep 2012. Main Tumulus at top of Windover Hill (Picture 2): Location approx 50.8084, 0.1873
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Log Text: Notes on "Long barrow": situated to the west of the tumuli above the Long man of Wilmington, this feature appears to be orientated to approximately 50 degrees east of north
Windover Hill
Date Added: 28th Sep 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Windover Hill Flint Mines submitted by jonm on 28th Sep 2012. Several bowl shapes in area thought to be flint mines. A curious feature of each bowl is a slightly raised platform in front of most of the bowls. This platform in this picture located adjacent to the bowl at 50.80953N, 0.19037E
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Log Text: These are two barrows sited at the top of Windover Hill. Excellent views over southern England (east Sussex and Kent) to the North Downs
Windover Hill Flint Mines
Date Added: 28th Sep 2012
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Access 2
Windover Hill Flint Mines submitted by jonm on 28th Sep 2012. Several bowl shapes in area thought to be flint mines. A curious feature of each bowl is a slightly raised platform in front of most of the bowls. This platform in this picture located adjacent to the bowl at 50.80953N, 0.19037E
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Log Text: These structures are thought to be flint mines. Curiously, the miners opted to dig large bowl shapes into the rock rather than opt for seam trenches: Given that the first layers of chalk are typically weathered, this choice of mining technique would have resulted in a yield of approximately 10% of that which could have been obtained, for the same effort, by shallow seam trenching.
Curiously, flints have clearly been left in situ in the surrounding man made structures (rabbit digs produce a large quantity of flint in those bowl tumuli affected). Flint is available locally in vast quantities at the local beaches, and particularly below the cliffs.