Location
- Atlas number
- EN3733 (3733)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kent
- Historic county
- Kent
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tunbridge Wells
- Also recorded in
- East Sussex
- National Grid reference
- TQ 5612 3825
- Latitude
- 51.12220
- Longitude
- 0.22959
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Recesses/Guard Chambers (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- north, northeast, and northwest
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1940); 1st Identified Written Reference (1942); Geophysical Survey (1958-1960); Excavation (1958-1960); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961-1962)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003816
- HER
- Kent MKE120 (second identifier MES3276)
- National record
- record TQ 53 NE 8; monument 409149
- Wikidata
- Q31117870
Sources
References
- Money, J.H. 1941. An Interim Report on Excavations at High Rocks, Tunbridge Wells, 1940. Sussex Archaeol Collect 82,104-9
- Money, J.H. 1960. Excavations at High Rocks, Tunbridge Wells, 1954-1956. Sussex Archaeol Collect 98, 173-197
- Money, J. H. 1968. Excavations in the Iron Age hillfort at High Rocks, near Tunbridge Wells, 1957-61. Sussex Archaeol Collect 106,158-205