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Name:Highdown Hill Camp, Ferring
HER Ref:MWS6402
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 5093 1043
Parish:Ferring, Arun, West Sussex
Map:Show location on Streetmap

Monument Types

  • ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT (In Use, Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • OCCUPATION SITE (Occupation Debris, Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)
  • OCCUPATION SITE (Occupation Debris, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POST MILL (Constructed, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • (Former Type) RADAR STATION (In Use, WW II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Sources

<1>Bibliographic reference: Aldsworth FG. 1975. TQ00SE1.
<2>Bibliographic reference: Lane Fox AM. 1869. Archaeologia. 42:74-6.
<3>Excavation archive: Wilson AE. 1940. Report on the excavations on Highdown Hill, Sussex, August 1939. Sussex Arch Colls. 81:167-203.
<4>Excavation archive: Wilson AE. 1950. Excavations on Highdown Hill,1947. Sussex Arch Colls. 89:163-178.
<5>Bibliographic reference: Allen IM, Britton D & Coghlan MM. 1970. Metallurgical Reports onBritish and Irish BA Imps and Weapons in the Pitt Rivers. 216-218 No 111.
<6>Bibliographic reference: Bradley R. 1971. 11-12:15-16:19-21.
<7>Bibliographic reference: Aldsworth FG. 1976. TQ00SE1.
<8>Scheduling record: Secretary of State. 1997. Schedule of Monuments.
<9>Bibliographic reference: 1997. EH Revised Scheduling. Ref:MPP23/ AA 50839/1.
<10>Bibliographic reference: RCHME. Flint Mines on Highdown Hill. Copy in WSCC Source Material.
<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: Irving GV. 1857. JBAA.
<13>Bibliographic reference: Read CH. 1899-1901. Proc Soc Antiqs.
<14>Bibliographic reference: Curwen EC. 1954.
<15>Bibliographic reference: Aldsworth FG. 1975. TQ00SE1.
<16>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.
<17>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.
<18>Excavation archive: Wilson AE. 1940. Report on theexcavations on Highdown Hill, Sussex, August 1939. Sussex Arch Colls.
<19>Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2013. Highdown Hill Camp, Ferring: Licence to carry out a geophysical survey.
<20>Grey Literature Report: GeoTechne Archaeology. 2021. Highdown Hill, Ferring, West Sussex: Detailed Gradiometer Survey Report. Reference: WS/Ar/F-2020M.

Associated Events

  • Part excav, Henty, 1895-1901
  • Part excav, Wilson AE, 1939-1947
  • Highdown Hill Camp, Ferring - Gradiometer Survey

Associated Monuments

  • MWS6386 - Related to: Anglo Saxon Cemetery at Highdown Hill Camp (Monument)
  • MWS6523 - Related to: Possible Flint Mines at Highdown Hill. (Monument)

Associated Finds

  • DAGGER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • HOARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

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