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Cross dyke 420m west of Chanctonbury Ring hillfort is a linear defensive earthwork situated in the South Downs landscape of Sussex. The dyke forms part of the territorial or defensive infrastructure associated with Chanctonbury Ring, an Iron Age hillfort of considerable regional importance. Dating to the Iron Age period, the dyke likely functioned as a boundary marker or secondary line of defence related to the settlement and land control centred on the hillfort. Its precise chronology and function remain subjects of archaeological study, though such linear works are characteristic of later prehistoric settlement systems in southern Britain.
Cross dyke 420m west of Chanctonbury Ring hillfort is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015115. View the official record →
Cross dyke 420m west of Chanctonbury Ring hillfort is a linear defensive earthwork situated in the South Downs landscape of Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015115.
Cross dyke 420m west of Chanctonbury Ring hillfort 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 1015115.
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 (3.7 km), Cissbury Ring hillfort, prehistoric flint mine and associated remains (4 km), Bowl barrow 120m north west of Cissbury (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cross dyke 420m west of Chanctonbury Ring hillfort's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cross dyke 420m west of Chanctonbury Ring hillfort stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.