Goosehill Camp is a prehistoric
earthwork that dates back to the
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...
. It consists of two concentric banks and ditches. The inner enclosure has one entrance and surround two levelled hut sites.
Goosehill Camp is within the
Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve
Kingley Vale is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Chichester in West Sussex. It is also a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. An area of is a national nature reserve.
The site ...
, on the
South Downs
The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the east. ...
.
Excavations
Goosehill Camp's first recorded excavation was carried out by J. R. Boyden. This excavation was carried out between 1953 and 1955.
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An excavation took place between 2008-2009 and was carried out by the ]University College London
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's Institute of Archaeology, under Mark Roberts. These excavations were complemented by a topographical survey and a magnetometry survey.
More recently, between 2014 and 2016 a field survey has been conducted, around Kingley Vale, by programme of volunteer based fieldwork, led under the guidance and support of professional archaeologists.Goosehill Camp was included in the survey.
See also
*Devil's Humps, Stoughton
The Devil's Humps (also known as the Kings' Graves) are four Bronze Age barrows situated on Bow Hill on the South Downs near Stoughton, West Sussex. They are situated on a downland ridgeway crossed by an ancient trackway, above Kingley Vale.Dy ...
Notes
References
External links
Secrets of the high woods project page
{{Iron Age hillforts in England
Archaeological sites in West Sussex
Iron Age sites in England
Hill forts in West Sussex