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Mount Caburn Camp

East Sussex, England · Atlas EN3730

Mount Caburn Camp is a contour fort in Glynde, East Sussex, England.

Other names on the record: The Caburn.

It is recorded as extant, with a partial univallate and partial multivallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work, and an enclosed area of 3 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a hilltop and at 137 m.

The aspect is recorded as level.

Recorded land use includes pasture.

Dating evidence is recorded for 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, AD 400–800, and after AD 800 (Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology). Reliability is recorded as B - Medium.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (1014527).

Location

Atlas number
EN3730 (3730)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
East Sussex
Historic county
Sussex
Parish, community, or townland
Glynde
National Grid reference
TQ 4441 0891
Latitude
50.86172
Longitude
0.05097
Altitude
137 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
3
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
Number of ditches
3
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
3 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
Enclosing works, excavated
earthen bank, timber-framed wall, timber-laced wall, and other burning
Also recorded
multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Entrance forms
In-turned (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Simple Gap (North west)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture

Dating

Dating
800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, AD 400–800, and after AD 800
Dating evidence
Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
Dating reliability
B - Medium

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
pits
Interior excavation
pits, postholes, and roundhouses
Finds
pottery, metalworking, human bones, and lithics
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1975); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1877-1878); Excavation (1925-1926); Excavation (1937-1938); Geophysical Survey (1996-1998); Excavation (1996-1998); Earthwork Survey (2005-2011)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1014527
HER
East Sussex MES1456
National record
record TQ 40 NW 29; monument 405932
Wikidata
Q31117790

Sources

References

  1. Carpenter, E. 2008. The South Downs NMP Pilot Area 1; Worthing to The Weald: National Mapping Programme, Centre for Archaeology Report No 11-2008.
  2. Curwen, E. and Curwen, E.C. 1927. Excavation in The Caburn, near Lewes, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 68, 1-56.
  3. Curwen, E.C. 1931. The Caburn: its date and a fresh find, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 72, 152-6
  4. Drewett, P.L. and Hamilton, S. 1999. Marking time and making space: excavations and landscape studies at the Caburn Hillfort, East Sussex, 1996-98,Sussex Archaeol Collect. 137, 7-38. With specialist reports.
  5. Hamilton, S. 1998. Using elderly data bases. Iron Age pit deposits at The Caburn, East Sussex, and related sites, Sussex Archaeol Coll, 136, 23-39.
  6. Hamilton, S. and Manley, J.1997. Points of view. Prominent enclosures in 1st millennium Sussex, Sussex Archaeol Coll, 135, 93-112.
  7. 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.
  8. Holmes, J. 1984. Excavations at Hollingbury Camp, Sussex, 1967-9, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 122, 51.
  9. Lane Fox, A. 1881. Excavations at Mount Caburn Camp, near Lewes, conducted in September and October, 1877, and July 1878, Arch, 46, 2, 423-95.
  10. Wilson, A. E. 1939. Excavations at The Caburn 1938, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 80, 193-216.