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| Name: | Iron Age - Romano-British Occupation, Cissbury Ring |
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| HER Ref: | MWS5267 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Designations
- Scheduled Monument 27069: CISSBURY RING HILLFORT, PREHISTORIC FLINT MINE AND ASSOCIATED REMAINS
Summary
Much of the hillfort was being cultivated by the first century BC, and most of the interior shows traces of a rectangular aggregate field system. Excavations indicated a group of at least 11 closely spaced, sub-rectangular depressions, representing Romano-British buildings
Monument Types
- OCCUPATION SITE (Domestic-unclassified, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD (between))
Sources
| <1> | Excavation archive: Toms C & HS. 1926. Sussex Arch Colls. 67:55-83 plan. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: Curwen EC & Ross Williamson RP. 1931. Antiq Journ. 11:14-36. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Curwen EC. 1954. 236 247 263 296-7 314-5. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Peacock DPS. 1987. 81-2. |
| <5> | Scheduling record: Secretary of State. 1997. Schedule of Monuments. |
Associated Events - none recorded
Associated Monuments
- MWS6361 - Related to: Cissbury Ring Iron Age Hillfort, Worthing (Monument)
- MWS9147 - Related to: Northern Defences, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
- MWS9149 - Related to: Southern Defences, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
Associated Finds
- QUERN (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)
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