Location
- Atlas number
- EN3748 (3748)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Washington
- National Grid reference
- TQ13931206
- Latitude
- 50.89684
- Longitude
- -0.38144
- Altitude
- 229 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Excavation (1899); Excavation (1909); Excavation (1977); Excavation (1990-1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015114
- HER
- West Sussex MWS5184
- National record
- record TQ 11 SW 1; monument 396437
- Wikidata
- Q31117723
Sources
References
- Bedwin, O. 1980. Excavations at Chanctonbury Ring, Wiston, West Sussex, 1977, Britannia, 173-231.
- Lane Fox, A.H. 1869. An examination into the character and probable origin of the hill forts of Sussex, Arch, 42, 43.
- Mitchell, G.S. 1910. Excavations at Chanctonbury Ring, 1909, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 53, 131-137
- Rudling, D. 1989. Chanctonbury Ring, Wiston, West Sussex. Assess Excavs, Dec 1989, unpublished report.