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| Name: | Wolstonbury Camp Enclosure |
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| HER Ref: | MWS6473 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Designations
- Scheduled Monument 27077: WOLSTONBURY CAMP: A RAM'S HILL TYPE ENCLOSURE ON WOLSTONBURY HILL AND ASSOCIATED LATER REMAINS
Summary
The monument includes Wolstonbury Camp, a Late Bronze Age Ram's Hill type enclosure situated on a clay-with-flints capped, chalk hill which forms part of the Sussex Downs
Monument Types
- HILLFORT (In Use, Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- OCCUPATION SITE (Occupation debris, Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Sources
| <1> | Excavation archive: Curwen EC. 1930. TQ21SE1. Sussex Arch Colls. 71:237-245 plan 240. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: OS. 1972. Enclosures on Wolstonbury Hill, ... , Request Survey. SAC 130. Arch Notes, Pg 232. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: McOmish D & Oswald A. Nov 93. Flintwork from Woolstonbury Hill, West Sussex. p.145-161. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Butler C. 1992. The South East to AD 1000 - Hillforts. Ref: MPP35/ AA 50876/1. |
| <5> | Bibliographic reference: Drewett, Rudling & Gardiner. 1988. Calibration of Radiocarbon Age to Calendar Years. |
| <6> | Unpublished document: Russell, M. Feb.97. Enclosures on Wolstonbury Hill, ... , Request Survey. |
| <7> | Bibliographic reference: McOmish D & Oswald A. Nov.93. EH Revised Scheduling. |
| <8> | Bibliographic reference: 1997. |
| <9> | Scheduling record: Secretary of State. 1997. Schedule of Monuments. |
| <10> | Unpublished document: National Trust. 1996. The Dyke Estate, West Sussex - An Archaeological And Land Use History Report. |
| <11> | 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. |
| <12> | 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
- Part excav, Curwen EC, 1929
Associated Monuments
- MWS832 - Related to: Bronze Age pottery - Wolstonbury Hill (Find Spot)
- MWS831 - Related to: Neolithic flint implements - Wolstonbury Hill (Find Spot)
- MWS833 - Related to: Roman pottery and coins - Wolstonbury Hill (Find Spot)
- MWS4517 - Related to: Wolstonbury Hill (Monument)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Early Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 2350 BC to 401 BC)
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