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Saxonbury Hill Camp
East Sussex, England · Atlas EN3736
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3736 (3736)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rotherfield
- National Grid reference
- TQ57783294
- Latitude
- 51.07425
- Longitude
- 0.25077
- Altitude
- 202 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1724); 1st Identified Written Reference (1835); Other (1873); Other (1996); Excavation (1929-1930)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014525
- HER
- East Sussex MES4757
- National record
- record TQ 53 SE 1; monument 409224
- Wikidata
- Q31117817
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.
- Hors_eld, T. W. 1835. The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex, as reprinted in 1974, Dorking: Kohler and Coombes.
- Lea, D. and English, J. 2015. Analytical survey and landscape context of Saxonbury Hillfort, Rotherbridge, East Sussex. Sussex Archaeol Collect. 135, 29-40.
- Shand, G. 1996. Archaeological watching brief at Saxonbury Hillfort, East Sussex, private client report by Canterbury Archaeological Trus
- Winbolt, S.E. 1930. Excavations at Saxonbury Camp, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 71, 222-36.