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Name:Anglo Saxon Cemetery at Highdown Hill Camp
HER Ref:MWS6386
Type of record:Monument

Designations

  • Scheduled Monument 29268: HIGHDOWN HILL CAMP: A RAM'S HILL TYPE ENCLOSURE, AN ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AND ASSOCIATED REMAINS

Summary

The monument includes a Ram's Hill type enclosure, a later, Anglo-Saxon mixed-rite cemetery and associated remains, including a medieval post mill, situated on an isolated chalk hill which rises above the West Sussex coastal plain c.4km south of the main ridge of the Sussex Downs.


Grid Reference:TQ 0927 0434
Parish:Ferring, Arun, West Sussex
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Monument Types

  • CEMETERY (Roman to Early Medieval/Dark Age - 400 AD to 599 AD)
  • STRUCTURE (Constructed, Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)

Sources

<1>Excavation archive: Lane Fox AH. 1869. Further remarks of the hillforts of Sussex...Cissbury and Highdown. Archaeologia. 42:74-6.
<2>Bibliographic reference: 1892. Sussex Daily News. 14th Nov.
<3>Excavation archive: Sawyer J. 1893. Antiquity. 27:34-6.
<4>Excavation archive: Sawyer J. 1894. Antiquity. 30:241-2.
<5>Excavation archive: Read CH. 1895. On excavations in a cemetery of South Saxons on Highdown, Sussex. Archaeologia. 54:369-82.
<6>Excavation archive: Read CH. 1896. Further excavations in a cemetery of South Saxons on Highdown, Sussex. Archaeologia. 55:203-214.
<7>Bibliographic reference: Horton-Smith RJ. 1896. Journ Anthropo Inst. 26:86-102.
<8>Bibliographic reference: Read CH. 1899-1901. Proc Soc Antiqs. 2nd series:18:386-88.
<9>Bibliographic reference: 1905. VCH (Sussex). 340-6.
<10>Bibliographic reference: Leeds ET. 1913.
<11>Bibliographic reference: Leeds ET. 1935.
<12>Bibliographic reference: Griffith AF. 1925. Some notes on Anglo Saxon Antiquities from Highdown, near Worthing. Sussex Arch Colls. 66:219-24.
<13>Bibliographic reference: Frost M. 1929. The Early History of Worthing. 47-54.
<14>Bibliographic reference: Frost M. 1929. Guide to the Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.
<15>Bibliographic reference: Frost M. 1936. Worthing Archaeol Soc Annual Report. 14:11-26.
<16>Bibliographic reference: Goodman CH. Highdown. Unpublished MSS in Worthing Library.
<17>Excavation archive: Wilson AE. 1940. Report on the excavations on Highdown Hill, Sussex, August 1939. Sussex Arch Colls. 81:173-208.
<18>Bibliographic reference: Wilson AE. 1942. 34-48.
<19>Excavation archive: Wilson AE. 1950. Excavations on Highdown Hill, 1947. Sussex Arch Colls. 89:163-178.
<20>Bibliographic reference: Wilson AE & Gerard E. 1958. Guide to the Anglo Saxon Collections in Worthing Museum.
<21>Bibliographic reference: Aldsworth FG. 1975. TQ00SE2.
<22>Bibliographic reference: Welch MG. 1976. Highdown Hill and its Saxon cemetery.
<23>Bibliographic reference: Aldsworth FG. 1977. TQ00SE2.
<24>Bibliographic reference: Welch MG. 1983. 461-483.
<25>Bibliographic reference: White S. 1986. Med Arch. 30:91-2.
<27>Scheduling record: Secretary of State. 1997. Schedule of Monuments.
<28>Bibliographic reference: Audrey Meaney. 1964. Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites.

Associated Events

  • Part excav, -, 1892-1901
  • Part excav, Wilson AE, 1939-1947

Associated Monuments

  • MWS6402 - Related to: Highdown Hill Camp, Ferring (Monument)

Associated Finds

  • VESSEL (Roman - 300 AD to 399 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman to Early Medieval/Dark Age - 400 AD to 599 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Roman to Early Medieval/Dark Age - 400 AD to 599 AD)
  • HUMAN REMAINS (Roman to Early Medieval/Dark Age - 400 AD to 599 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Roman to Early Medieval/Dark Age - 400 AD to 599 AD)

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