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Castle Hill, Newhaven
East Sussex, England · Atlas EN3732
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3732 (3732)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Newhaven
- National Grid reference
- TQ446000
- Latitude
- 50.78198
- Longitude
- 0.05050
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Other (1724); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1825); Other (2000); 1st Identified Written Reference (1601-1700); Excavation (1935-1938); Earthwork Survey (2005-2011)
Identifiers
- HER
- East Sussex MES1794
- National record
- record TQ 40 SW 33; monument 406342
- Wikidata
- Q31117763
Sources
References
- Carpenter, E. 2008. The South Downs NMP Pilot Area 1; Worthing to The Weald: National Mapping Programme, Centre for Archaeology Report No 11-2008.
- Carpenter, E. 2010. English Heritage: South Downs Project Beachy head - Peacehaven NMP.
- Field, L.F. 1939, Castle Hill, Newhaven, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 80, 263-292.
- 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.
- Johnson, C. 2000. Archaeological and historic landscape survey: Castle Hill, Newhaven, East Sussex, Archaeology South-East Report No 1247.
- Lane-Fox, Col. A. H. 1869. An examination into the character and probable origin of the hill forts of Sussex. Arch, 42, 34-5.