The track up to the top of Windover Hill
       
     
The view from the track up to Windover Hill across the Cuckmere Valley and Firle Beacon
       
     
the Neolithic long barrow
       
     
The Bronze Age bowl barrow on the summit
       
     
The Long Man of Wilmington also known as The Wilmington Giant
       
     
The track up to the top of Windover Hill
       
     
The track up to the top of Windover Hill

Windover Hill is best known as the home of ‘The Long Man of Wilmington’ a chalk cut hill figure once thought to be prehistoric, but now believed to have been created in the 16th or 17th Century. The reason for attributing it to prehistoric times was probably the siting of a barrow cemetery on the summit of the hill consisting of a large Neolithic long barrow and a great many Bronze Age round barrows, in particular a very large bowl barrow at the highest point. In addition to all of these are a profusion of earthworks such as cross dykes and pits (though many of the pits are almost certainly from flint mining, but not Neolithic). So it’s very much a ritual landscape in common with many other high points on the South Downs like Firle Beacon to the West through to the Eastbourne escarpment to the East.

The view from the track up to Windover Hill across the Cuckmere Valley and Firle Beacon
       
     
The view from the track up to Windover Hill across the Cuckmere Valley and Firle Beacon
the Neolithic long barrow
       
     
the Neolithic long barrow
The Bronze Age bowl barrow on the summit
       
     
The Bronze Age bowl barrow on the summit
The Long Man of Wilmington also known as The Wilmington Giant
       
     
The Long Man of Wilmington also known as The Wilmington Giant