Location
- Atlas number
- EN3746 (3746)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stedham with Iping
- National Grid reference
- SU 8460 2403
- Latitude
- 51.00969
- Longitude
- -0.79511
- Altitude
- 68 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1956); Excavation (1957); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1958)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015878
- HER
- West Sussex MWS6486
- National record
- record SU 82 SW 1; monument 246847
- Wikidata
- Q31117701
Sources
References
- Boyden, J. R. 1957. Excavations at Hammer Wood, Iping, 1957, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 96, 149-163.