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| Name: | Devil's Dyke Iron Age Hillfort, Poynings |
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| HER Ref: | MWS5074 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Designations
- Scheduled Monument 27080: DEVIL'S DYKE HILLFORT
Summary
The monument includes a large univallate hillfort dating to the Iron Age, situated on a chalk spur which forms part of the Sussex Downs.
Monument Types
- HILLFORT (In Use, Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)
- OCCUPATION SITE (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BURIAL (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
- HOTEL (Built, Post Medieval - 1807 AD to 1807 AD (post))
- (Former Type) AERIAL ROPEWAY (Constructed, Post Medieval - 1894 AD to 1894 AD)
- (Former Type) BANDSTAND (Constructed, Post Medieval - 1897 AD? to 1897 AD?)
- (Former Type) FAIRGROUND RIDE (Constructed, Post Medieval - 1897 AD? to 1897 AD?)
- (Former Type) OBSERVATORY (Built, Post Medieval - 1897 AD? to 1897 AD?)
- (Former Type) RAILWAY (Constructed, Post Medieval - 1897 AD to 1897 AD)
Sources
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: 1962. Southern Britain in the Iron Age. 36. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: 1905. VCH (Sussex). 461. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Curwen EC. 1954. 237-9. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Curwen EC. 1929. 68-9. |
| <5> | Bibliographic reference: OS. 1972. TQ21SE3. |
| <6> | Bibliographic reference: Peacock DPS. 1987. 82. |
| <7> | Bibliographic reference: Newton I. 1996. Devil's Dyke hillfort. EH. National Monument Number: 27080. |
| <8> | Scheduling record: Secretary of State. 1996. Schedule of Monuments. |
| <9> | Unpublished document: National Trust. 1996. The Dyke Estate, West Sussex - An Archaeological And Land Use History Report. |
| <10> | Article in serial: Sussex Archaeological Collections. 1997. Points of view: prominent enclosures in 1st Millennium BC Sussex. Volume 135, Page 93-112. Sussex Archaeological Collection. |
| <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. |
Associated Events - none recorded
Associated Monuments
- MWS10272 - Parent of: Possible World War One Weapons Testing Site, Devils Dyke, Poynings (Building)
- MWS1350 - Related to: Neolithic implements - Devil's Dyke (Find Spot)
- MWS5446 - Related to: Possible Saxon Burial on Devil's Dyke (Monument)
Associated Finds
- OYSTER SHELL (Unknown date)
- QUERN (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)
- POT (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 99 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
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