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Garden Hill, Hartfield
East Sussex, England · Atlas EN3734
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3734 (3734)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hartfield
- National Grid reference
- TQ 4446 3196
- Latitude
- 51.06840
- Longitude
- 0.05975
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Passage-way/Corridor (East); Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, roundhouses, rectangular structures, and roads or tracks
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1948); Excavation (1968); Excavation (1957-1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014524
- HER
- East Sussex ME4555
- National record
- record TQ 43 SE; monument 407127
- Wikidata
- Q31117810
Sources
References
- 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.
- Money, J. H. 1977. The Iron Age hill-fort and Romano-British iron-working settlement at Garden Hill, Sussex. Britannia, 8, 339-50.
- Money, J. H. and Streeten, A. 1979. Excavations in the Iron Age Hill Fort and Romano-British Ironworking settlement at Garden Hill, Hartfield, East Sussex (1968- 1978). Wealden Iron , Bull Wealden Iron Res Grp. 1st ser, 15, 16-26.
- Tebbutt, C.F. 1970. Garden Hill Camp, Hartfield, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 108, 39-49