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Firle Beacon is a hill in the South Downs of southern England. It is 217 metres high and is a Marilyn. It commands a far-reaching view. When the prevailing wind is northerly, the site is often used for gliding activities like slope soaring.
At Firle Beacon itself () is a bowl barrow, about in diameter and high. It was opened in 1820; finds included two .
The long barrow, 220m west of Firle Beacon (), is about long, wide and high. It has an east–west orientation, and has a surrounding ditch, more noticeable on the northern side.
There are other round barrows within a kilometre of Firle Beacon, to the west and east.
Firle Corn
Firle Corn, high on the north-east slope of Firle Beacon, is a nearly lost hill figure, possibly gigantotomy, seen using infrared photography. It looks like a small cereal, but what it depicts is unknown. Legend suggests a giant called Gill was cut on this hill and considered an adversary of the nearby Long Man of Wilmington; one story says the Firle Beacon giant threw his hammer at the Wilmington giant and killed him, and the hill figure marks this site. Scraps of Folklore Collected by John Philipps Emslie, C. S. Burne, Folklore, Vol. 26, No. 2. (Jun. 30, 1915), pp. 153–170.
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