Location
- Atlas number
- EN3743 (3743)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Upper Beeding
- National Grid reference
- TQ2292008393
- Latitude
- 50.86201
- Longitude
- -0.25480
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); In-turned (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1985); Geophysical Survey (1986); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873-1875); Excavation (1929-1932)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015124
- HER
- West Sussex MWS6466
- National record
- record TQ 20 NW 3; monument 398683
- Wikidata
- Q31117681
Sources
- Atlas of Hillforts record
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata
- Historic England list entry
- Historic England research record
References
- Curwen, E. C. 1933. Excavations on Thundersbarrow Hill, Sussex, Ant J, 13, 109-151.
- Rudling, D. 1985. Thundersbarrow Hill: Plough Damage Assessment Report, 1985, unpublished report for English Heritage.
- Shiel, D. 1987. Geophysical survey at Thundersbarrow Hill, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, AML 151/87, Ancient Monuments Laboratory, English Heritage.