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Seaford Head Camp
East Sussex, England · Atlas EN3731
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3731 (3731)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Seaford
- National Grid reference
- TV 4947 9786
- Latitude
- 50.76079
- Longitude
- 0.11835
- Altitude
- 86 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1587); Other (1874); Excavation (1876); Excavation (1983); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Earthwork Survey (2005-2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014523
- HER
- East Sussex MES1699 (second identifier 626636)
- National record
- record TV 49 NE; monument 1523052
- Wikidata
- Q31117801
Sources
References
- Bedwin, O. 1986. Excavations at Seaford Head Camp, East Sussex, 1983, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 124, 25-33.
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales.. Windgather Press.
- Carpenter, E. 2008. The South Downs NMP Pilot Area 1; Worthing to The Weald: National Mapping Programme, Centre for Archaeology Report No 11-2008.
- Fox, Col. A. Lane 1877. Excavations in the camp and tumulus of Seaford, Sussex, J Anthrop Inst, 6, 287-99.
- 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.
- Price, J.E. 1882. On Excavations In the camp, the tumulus, and Romano-British cemetery, Seaford, Sussex, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 32, 167-178.