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Goosehill Camp
West Sussex, England · Atlas EN3747
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3747 (3747)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- West Dean
- National Grid reference
- SU82971265
- Latitude
- 50.90738
- Longitude
- -0.82137
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.4 ha, 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1953-1955)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008375
- HER
- West Sussex MWS3729
- National record
- record SU 81 SW 18; monument 246477
- Wikidata
- Q31117709
Sources
References
- Boyden, J .R. 1956. Excavations at Goosehill Camp 1953-1955, 94, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 70-99.