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Name:Itford Hill Style Settlement on New Barn Down
HER Ref:MWS6397
Type of record:Monument

Designations

  • Scheduled Monument 29273: ITFORD HILL STYLE SETTLEMENT AND AN ANGLO-SAXON BARROW FIELD AT NEW BARN DOWN, 850M NORTH WEST OF MYRTLE GROVE FARM

Summary

The monument includes an Itford Hill style settlement, part of its associated field system and a later barrow field dating to the early medieval period, situated on the southern slope of a chalk hill which forms part of the Sussex Downs.


Grid Reference:TQ 0846 0921
Parish:Patching, Arun, West Sussex
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Monument Types

  • ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT (In Use, Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • TRACKWAY (Constructed, Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Sources

<1>Bibliographic reference: Curwen E & EC. 1922. Sussex Arch Colls. 63:32-5 plan.
<2>Excavation archive: Curwen EC. 1934. Sussex Arch Colls. 75:137-70 plans photosetc.
<3>Bibliographic reference: Curwen EC. 1954. 179-182.
<4>Bibliographic reference: OS. 1971. TQ00NE2.
<5>Bibliographic reference: 1997. EH Revised Scheduling. Ref.MPP23/ AA 53020/1.
<6>Scheduling record: Secretary of State. 1997. Schedule of Monuments.

Associated Events

  • Part excav, Curwen EC, 1933

Associated Monuments

  • MWS6396 - Related to: Itford Hill style settlement on Cock Hill (Monument)
  • MWS3364 - Related to: Neolithic Settlement on New Barn Down (Monument)
  • MWS3363 - Related to: Saxon Barrow Field on New Barn Down (Monument)
  • MWS3000 - Related to: Saxon Barrow on New Barn Down (part of New Barn Down Barrow Field) (Monument)

Associated Finds

  • AXE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SEAX (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)

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