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Piper's Copse Camp
West Sussex, England · Atlas EN3744
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3744 (3744)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Northchapel
- National Grid reference
- SU9784029550
- Latitude
- 51.05682
- Longitude
- -0.60552
- Altitude
- 38 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1934); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1958)
Identifiers
- HER
- West Sussex MWS2626
- National record
- record SU 92 NE 1; monument 249767
- Wikidata
- Q31117633
Sources
References
- Winbolt, S.E. 1936. An Early Iron Age Camp in Pipers Copse, Kirdford, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 77, 245- 52.