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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 09 February 2024  Page Views: 665

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hove Barrow Alternative Name: Cony Barrow
Country: England County: West Sussex Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Brighton  Nearest Village: Hove
Map Ref: TQ2948105096
Latitude: 50.830926N  Longitude: 0.162775W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
Destroyed Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Hove Barrow
Hove Barrow submitted by Andy B : The Amber Cup This is the only known complete amber cup like it in the world. It is one of Britain's most precious objects from the Bronze Age. The amber probably comes from a country by the Baltic Sea. The rarity of the cup and the other objects tell us that Hove Barrow was the grave of a special person. Caption: Brighton Museum (Vote or comment on this photo)
A magnificent Bronze Age burial mound use to sit in the middle of Hove, and it even gave Hove its name, as it comes from the Old Danish word Hof – which means burial ground. There were a few burial mounds dotted between the South Downs and the shore in Hove. But, the biggest by far, was the mound situated close to where Palmeira Square sits now. It stood twenty feet tall, and was so big some people didn’t think it was a burial mound at all but just an unusual hillock.

The field it sat in was known locally as Cony Barrow. Cony is the old word for rabbit, and barrow is another name for a burial mound – which conjures up quite a tranquil picture in my mind. The mound was close enough to the shore that it could be seen from far out to sea, just like the burial described in the ancient story of Beowulf.

It is said that during Easter celebrations the local people use to link hands around Hove’s mound and play the traditional game of Kiss in the Ring – which has its roots in Pagan Springtime celebrations. It is curious to imagine how far back this custom went – it could well be very ancient indeed.

But this all stopped in 1856, when the mound was flattened during the development of the Palmeira Square area. I wonder how scared the workman felt when their spade hit the solid wood of the coffin buried deep inside?

Some say the coffin was a hollowed-out tree trunk, others that it was crafted from wooden boards. But, either way, once the coffin came into contact with the air it crumbled to dust, revealing ancient human bones nestled inside.

The skeletal remains had a number of burial goods placed on the chest area. The most spectacular of these was a cup crafted from Baltic amber. A beautiful and curious object, it looks more like a modern-day teacup than a chalice or a beaker. Incredibly, it’s over 3,000 years old! The amber cup is on display at the Hove Museum.

Source: Imogen White, who writes how local history inspired her to write, The Amber Pendant.
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Hove Barrow
Hove Barrow submitted by Andy B : The Elaine Evans Archaeology Gallery in Brighton Museum & Art Gallery opened in January 2019. As part of the research for the gallery, Grant Cox of ArtasMedia created several 2D digital stills reconstructions of the key archaeological sites in the Brighton area, including this one of Hove Barrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hove Barrow
Hove Barrow submitted by Andy B : In 1856 workmen cut into a huge burial mound near Palmeira Square, Hove. Inside they found an oak coffin containing: • pieces of a human skeleton • a cup made from one block of amber • a stone pendant • a bronze dagger • an axe hammer The objects are about 3,600 years old. Look closely at the pendant. You can see a finely woven cloth pattern preserved in mineral deposits. The... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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TQ2905 : Hove: inspection at 10.45 by John Sutton
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Discovery Of A Tumulus At Hove, Near Brighton, Containing An Amber Cup by Andy B on Saturday, 10 February 2024
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Discovery Of A Tumulus At Hove, Near Brighton, Containing An Amber Cup, &c. by Barclay Phillips, Esq.
Westward of Brighton, and extending from the sea-beach to the Downs, is a plain many miles in length, rising with a very gradual slope to the hill tops, and varying in width from one to three miles. It may be said to commence about the centre of Brighton, between which town and the village of Hove have existed till within the last few years, some remarkably level fields devoted to pasturage and the cultivation of grass for hay. Nearly in the centre of one of these fields, that which was the second out of Brighton parish, once stood a small hillock, about fifteen or twenty feet high, on the north of the pathway leading from Brighton to Hove Church, and situated about 100 yards N.N.E. of the new church of St. John the Baptist; and, till very lately, famous every Good Friday as the resort of hundreds of young persons of both sexes to join in the rustic game of "kiss in the ring".
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Re: Hove Barrow by weldersdog- on Friday, 09 February 2024
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Hallo Andy,

i am still glad to be sitting while reading it all.

"I wonder how scared the workman felt when their spade hit the solid wood of the coffin buried deep inside?"

In my opinion there has been full awareness in this moment and the digging prozess. That is why some sites have been not fully cleared. The sites that are gone went not easily i think.

This cup is a thing i would not ever have imagined to been possible.

Some details of its size would be great.

The axe is metal or stone? it looks so shiny... The size is of interest too.

Thank you for sharing!

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