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Hollingbury Castle

East Sussex, England · Atlas EN3751

Hollingbury Castle is a partial contour fort in Brighton, East Sussex, England.

Other names on the record: Hollingbury Camp and Hollingbury.

It is recorded as extant, with a univallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank and counterscarp bank, and an enclosed area of 4.5 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a hilltop, at 178 m, and facing southeast.

Recorded land use includes pasture and scrub or bracken.

Dating evidence is recorded for 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400 (Artefactual). Reliability is recorded as B - Medium.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (1014526).

Location

Atlas number
EN3751 (3751)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
East Sussex
Historic county
Sussex
Parish, community, or townland
Brighton
National Grid reference
TQ32210787
Latitude
50.85529
Longitude
-0.12301
Altitude
178 m

Form and condition

Type
partial contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
univallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
1
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
3
Enclosed area
4.5 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and counterscarp bank
Enclosing works, excavated
earthen bank, timber-framed wall, palisade, and berm
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
In-turned (South west); Simple Gap (East)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
southeast
Land use
pasture and scrub or bracken

Dating

Dating
800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
Dating evidence
Artefactual
Dating reliability
B - Medium

Interior and investigation

Interior excavation
pits, postholes, roundhouses, and roads or tracks
Finds
pottery and lithics
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Excavation (1908); Excavation (1931); Geophysical Survey (1998); Excavation (1967-1969)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1014526
HER
East Sussex MES311
National record
record TQ 30 NW 12; monument 401975
Wikidata
Q31117838

Sources

References

  1. Curwen, E. C. 1932. Excavations at Hollingbury Camp, Sussex, Antiq J, 12, 1-16.
  2. Funnel J. 1998. A resistivity survey at Hollingbury hillfort, Unpublished monograph.
  3. Hamilton, S. and Manley, J.1997. Points of view. Prominent enclosures in 1st millennium Sussex, Sussex Archaeol Coll, 135, 93-112.
  4. Hamilton, S. and Manley, J. 2001. Hillforts, monumentality and place: a chronological and topographic review of first millennium BC hillforts of southeast England, European J Archaeol, 4.1, 7-42.
  5. Holden, E.W. 1966. Stoke Clump, Hollingbury and the early pre-Roman Iron Age in Sussex, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 104, 109-20.
  6. Holmes, J.1984. Excavations at Hollingbury Camp, Sussex, 1967-9, Sussex Archaeol Collect. 122, 29-53.
  7. Toms, H.S. 1914. Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society annual report, 9-19.