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Bronze Age fort at Highdown Hill. Several Bronze Age barrows have been found within the modern borough of Worthing, close to Cissbury on the Downs. The enclosures at Highdown Hill are believed to have been built at this time.
Cissbury Ring is the largest hill fort in Sussex, the second largest in England [5] and one of the largest in Europe overall, covering some 60 acres (24 hectares). [6] The earthworks that form the fortifications were built around the beginning of the Middle Iron-Age possibly around 250 BC [ 7 ] but abandoned in the period 50 BC - 50 AD.
An excavation at Little High Street dates the earliest remains from Worthing town centre to the Bronze Age. There is also an important Bronze Age hill fort on the western fringes of the modern borough at Highdown Hill. During the Iron Age, one of Britain's largest hill forts was built at Cissbury Ring.
Aerial photo of the hill fort atop Highdown Hill looking generally southeast. Human occupation of the hill is thought to have started in the Late Bronze Age (around 1000 BC) when an enclosure was built. [2] By the Early Iron Age (around 600 BC) this had been replaced by a hill fort composed of a single rampart and
There are 1,224 hill forts in England. [1] Although some originate in the Bronze Age, the majority of hill forts in Britain were constructed during the Iron Age (about 8th century BC to the Roman conquest of Britain).
Bronze Age mass grave reveals grisly massacre in which victims were likely eaten. Katie Hunt, CNN. December 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM. Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s ...
Church Hill is an archaeological site, of the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, in West Sussex, England. It is on the South Downs near the village of Findon and about 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of Worthing. It is a scheduled monument. [1]
It found that at least 37 Bronze Age-era men, women and children were "killed and butchered" and then cannibalized, with their bodies then thrown down a nearly 50-foot deep natural shaft. While ...