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Chanctonbury Ring is a univallate Iron Age hillfort located on the South Downs near Washington in West Sussex. The fort comprises a single defensive bank and ditch enclosing approximately five and a half acres, and dates from the Late Iron Age, likely constructed in the first or second century BC. Excavations in the twentieth century revealed evidence of Romano-Celtic temple structures within the hillfort, indicating its continued religious and possibly administrative significance during the Roman period following the conquest of AD 43. The site remains a prominent topographical feature, crowned with a distinctive beech wood plantation established in the eighteenth century.
Chanctonbury Ring hillfort and Romano-Celtic temples is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015114. View the official record →
Chanctonbury Ring is a univallate Iron Age hillfort located on the South Downs near Washington in West Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015114.
Chanctonbury Ring hillfort and Romano-Celtic temples is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1015114.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Regular aggregate field system with prehistoric and Romano-British farmsteads and a Bronze Age bowl barrow on Park Brow (3.5 km), Cissbury Ring hillfort, prehistoric flint mine and associated remains (4 km), Bowl barrow 120m north west of Cissbury (4.2 km).
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