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A hillfort of probable Iron Age date enclosing an area of circa 60 acres. The ramparts partially enclose Neolithic flint mines. The earthworks on the hill were surveyed by RCHME in 1993 at the request of the National Trust. Features visible in the interior as earthworks include lyncheted fields, pits and small enclosures associated primarily with Iron Age and Roman activity on the hill. Many of these are visble on aerial photographs taken in 1945.
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: 1962. Southern Britain in the Iron Age. 36. |
| <2> | Excavation archive: Toms C & HS. 1926. Sussex Arch Colls. 67:55-83 plan. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Curwen EC & Ross Williamson RP. 1931. Antiq Journ. 11:14-36. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Curwen EC. 1954. 236 247 263 296-7 314-5. |
| <5> | Index: Ordnance Survey. 1964. Ordnance Survey Record Card - TQ10NW1. |
| <6> | Bibliographic reference: Lane Fox AH. 1869. Archaeologia. 42:53-76. |
| <7> | Bibliographic reference: OS. 1971. TQ10NW1. |
| <8> | Scheduling record: Secretary of State. 1997. Schedule of Monuments. |
| <9> | Article in serial: P. Harp, in Plateau Bulletin 3. 2002. Six Neolithic axe roughouts from Cissbury, West Sussex, p. 28. |
| <10> | Article in serial: Sussex Past and Present August 2000. 2000. Cissbury resistivity - A new Survey has been undertaken of the Hillfort. |
| <11> | Article in serial: S. Hamilton and J. Manley - European J. of Archaeology, p. 8-42 Vol. 4. 2001. Hillforts, Monumentality and Place: A Chronological and Topographic Review of First Millenium BC Hillforts of South-East England. Copy in WSCC Source Material. |
| <12> | Bibliographic reference: Donachie, J D & Field, D J. 1994. Cissbury Ring: a survey by the RCHME. Sussex Arch Colls, Vol 132. pp 25-32. |
| <13> | Grey Literature Report: English Heritage. 2001. Cissbury Ring, Worthing, West Sussex: Report on Geophysical Survey, April 2000.. Centre for Archaeology Report 91/2001. |
| <14> | Unpublished document: Archaeology South-East (James, R). Jun 2006. Archaeological and Historical Landscape Survey, Cissbury Ring, West Sussex. |
| <15> | Bibliographic reference: Stewart, I (in Brandon, P (1978) The South Saxons). 1978. The Sussex mints and their moneyers. pp100-101. |
| <16> | Bibliographic reference: Hill, D. 1978. The origins of the Saxon towns (in Brandon, P (1978), 'The South Saxons). |
| <17> | Grey Literature Report: Archaeology South-East. 2007. A Detailed Topographical and Geophysical Survey of Land Outside the Eastern Entrance of Cissbury Ring Hillfort, Findon, Sussex. Project No. 2869. |
| <18> | Grey Literature Report: Archaeology South-East. 2006. Archaeological and Historic Landscape Survey, Cissbury Ring, West Sussex.. Project No. 2241. |
| <19> | EH AMIE Report: English Heritage. 2012. English Heritage National Mapping Programme for Worthing - Weald, West Sussex - Digital Mapping (GIS) Shapefiles. |
| <20> | EH AMIE Report: English Heritage. 2012. English Heritage National Mapping Programme for Worthing - Weald, West Sussex. |
| <21> | Web Site: English Heritage. 2007. PastScape. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/. |
| <22> | Grey Literature Report: Archaeology South-East. 2015. Cissbury Ring Hillfort, Worthing - Watching Brief. Report Number: 2015350. |