Home / England / West Sussex / Torberry
Torberry
West Sussex, England · Atlas EN3739
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3739 (3739)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Harting
- National Grid reference
- SU779202
- Latitude
- 50.97686
- Longitude
- -0.89219
- Altitude
- 156 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
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East); In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1958); Excavation (1947-1949); Excavation (1956-1958)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015966
- HER
- West Sussex MWS6482
- National record
- record SU 72 SE 3; monument 243008
- Wikidata
- Q31117640
Sources
References
- Cunliffe, B, 1976. Iron Age Sites in Central Southern England, Council For British Archaeology Research Report, Vol. 16, 1-29.