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East Hill, Hastings
East Sussex, England ยท Atlas EN3727
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3727 (3727)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hastings
- National Grid reference
- TQ83000980
- Latitude
- 50.85865
- Longitude
- 0.60022
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (2007); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873-1875)
Identifiers
- HER
- East Sussex MES856
- National record
- record TQ 80 NW; monument 417223
- Wikidata
- Q31117755
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A.H. 1908. Earthworks of England : prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and mediaeval, London: Macmillann, 674.
- Fradley, M.and Newsome, S. 2008. East Hill, Hastings, East Sussex: A Landscape Survey and Investigation: survey report, Centre for Archaeology Report Series, Report No 35-2008.
- Page, W. (ed) 1905. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex: volume one, 468.