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Wolstonbury
West Sussex, England · Atlas EN4252
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4252 (4252)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pyecombe
- National Grid reference
- TQ28401370
- Latitude
- 50.90925
- Longitude
- -0.17482
- Altitude
- 206 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1765); Excavation (1929); Earthwork Survey (1993); Other (1995); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873-1883)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016153
- HER
- West Sussex MWS6473
- National record
- record TQ 21 SE 1; monument 399066
- Wikidata
- Q31117734
Sources
References
- Curwen,E,C. 1930. Wolstonbury (earthworks), Sussex Arch Colls, 71, 237-245
- Hamilton, S. and Manley, J.1997. Points of view. Prominent enclosures in 1st millennium Sussex, Sussex Archaeol Coll, 135, 93-112.
- 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.
- McOmish, D. and Oswald A. 1993. Flintwork from Woolstonbury Hill, West Sussex, 145-161.
- National Trust. 1996. The Dyke Estate, West Sussex - An Archaeological And Land Use History Report, Unpublished monograoh National Trust.
- Russell, M. 1995. Archaeological Watching brief at Wolstonbury Hill, Pycombe, West Sussex, Unpublished monograph Bournemouth University School of Conservation Sciences.