A HISTORY OF SUSSEX nounced types, viz. (i.) low circular mounds, 30 feet or more in diameter and from 2 feet to 3 feet in height, and (ii.) circular mounds, about 20 feet in diameter and 2 feet 6 inches in height, with a kind of crater-shaped hollow near, but not actually on the centre. From the various remains found in them it appears that the former are probably of the Bronze Age, whilst the latter are Anglo-Saxon barrows. The following is a list of the parishes in which barrows and tumuli have been noted. Most of them are probably sepulchral mounds, but excavations in the neighbourhood of Chanctonbury Ring and elsewhere have tended to show that some of the barrow-like mounds were con- nected with ancient defensive works. Alciston (numerous) Alfriston (numerous) Arlington Barlavington Beddingham Bepton Bignor Bishopstone Burton Bury Chailey Cocking Easebourne East Blatchington Eastbourne, Beachy Head (numerous) Eastdean (numerous) East Lavington Edburton Palmer Folkington Friston Glynde Graffham Hamsey (several) Hangleton Heyshott Hove Iford Jevington Kingston-by-Sea. Large mound known as Slonk Hill, and various others at New- market Hill, etc. Lavant Lewes Litlington LuUington Newtimber Old Shoreham Ovingdean Petworth Piddinghoe Piecombe Plumpton Portslade Rodmell Rottingdean Seaford South Mailing Stanmer Storrington Stoughton Sutton Treyford Up Waltham Walsingham West Dean West Firle (numerous) West Stoke Westmeston Willingdon Wilmington The writer desires to express his obligations to numerous friends for their kind help and advice in the work of collecting materials for this paper, particularly to Mr. I. Chalkley Gould for kindly reading and revising what he has written ; and also to Mr. Charles Dawson, F.S.A., and Mr. John Lewis, F.S.A. 4S0
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