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Tegdown Hill Barrows

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery

<b>Tegdown Hill Barrows</b>Posted by danielspanielImage © danielspaniel
Nearest Town:Hove (6km SSW)
OS Ref (GB):   TQ313101 / Sheet: 198
Latitude:50° 52' 29.53" N
Longitude:   0° 8' 0.92" W

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<b>Tegdown Hill Barrows</b>Posted by danielspaniel

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This site consists of a saucer barrow and three bowl barrows.

Be warned, you will enter the field and get all excited when you think the old dew pond is the saucer barrow - it isn't.

The edge of the saucer barrow almost touches the dewpond bank and is located just to the south of it.

This is the first time I've seen a saucer barrow and it is basically a henge like circular bank with some humps and bumps in the center. It has obviously been very truncated by the plough. It has a much larger circumference than your average Sussex Bronze Age barrow.

The 3 bowl barrows are so faint as to almost be invisible, but are just about discernible.

A lone sarsen sits by the style at the southern entrance to the field.
danielspaniel Posted by danielspaniel
27th April 2009ce
Edited 27th April 2009ce