Location
- Atlas number
- EN3728 (3728)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ditchling
- National Grid reference
- TQ33151300
- Latitude
- 50.90125
- Longitude
- -0.10774
- Altitude
- 248 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Geophysical Survey (2000); Earthwork Survey (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015340
- HER
- East Sussex MES1289
- National record
- record TQ 31 SW 13; monument 403045
- Wikidata
- Q31117770
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A.H. 1908. Earthwork of England : prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and mediaeval, London: Macmillann, 667-69.
- Bannister, N. The National Trust Annual Archaeological Review, 9, 2000-2001.
- Butler, C. 2001. Ditchling Beacon Enclosure: survey and trial trenching, Mid Sussex Field Archaeological Team assessment and evaluation report.
- Crow, D.A. 1930. Excavations at Ditchling Beacon, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 71, 259-61.
- Hamilton, S. and Manley, J.1997. Points of view. Prominent enclosures in 1st millennium Sussex, Sussex Archaeol Coll, 135, 93-112.
- Hamilton, S. and Manley, J. 2001. Hillforts, monumentality and place: a chronological and topographic review of first millennium BC hillforts of southeast England, European J Archaeol, 4.1, 7-42.