Location
- Atlas number
- EN4345 (4345)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ferring
- National Grid reference
- TQ09270434
- Latitude
- 50.82823
- Longitude
- -0.44986
- Altitude
- 82 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1857); Excavation (1868); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); Excavation (1939); Excavation (1947); Other (1975); Excavation (1988-1996); Geophysical Survey (1991-2013); Other (2008-2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015877
- HER
- West Sussex MWS6402
- National record
- record TQ 00 SE 1; monument 392735
- Wikidata
- Q31117746
Sources
References
- Gardiner, M, Excavations at Highdown Hill, 1988, 1996, unpublished excavation report.
- 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.
- Wilson, A. E. 1940. Report On The Excavations on Highdown Hill, Sussex, August 1939, Sussex Archaeol Coll, 81, 173-203.
- Wilson, A. E. 1950. Excavations on Highdown Hill, 1947, Sussex Archaeol Coll, 89, 163-178.