The Date of Cissbury Camp

E. Cecil Curwen; R. P. Ross Williamson

doi:10.1017/S0003581500033205

The Date of Cissbury Camp

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E. Cecil Curwen and

R. P. Ross Williamson

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The hill-fort of Cissbury, situated on a ridge of the Sussex Downs four miles north of Worthing, is one of the best known examples of its kind, though in regard to the strength of its defences it can scarcely be compared with such Wessex forts as Maiden Castle (Dorchester), Hambledon, Yarnbury, or Battlesbury.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1931 , pp. 14 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500033205 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1931

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^{page 14 note 1} Britannia (Gough's edn.), i, p. 188.

^{page 14 note 2} Place-Names of Sussex (Eng.P.N.Soc), vi, p. 197.

^{page 14 note 3} Parochial Topography of the Rape of Bramber, II, part ii, p. 32.

^{page 14 note 4} Historical and Descriptive Account of the Coast of Sussex, p. 363.

^{page 14 note 5} Historical and Topographical Description of Sussex, i, pp. 85–6.

^{page 14 note 6} Sussex Arch. Coll. iii, p. 173 ff.

^{page 15 note 1} It is probable that both in his plan and in his descriptions Irving has confused north with south (Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xiii, 1857, pp. 274–94).Google Scholar

^{page 15 note 2} Archaeologia, xlii, pp. 53–74.

^{page 15 note 3} Ibid. XLV, pp. 337 ff.

^{page 15 note 4} Journ. Anthrop. Inst, v, pp. 357 ff.

^{page 15 note 5} Ibid. vi, pp. 263, 431; vii, p. 412

^{page 16 note 1} Sussex Arch. Coll. lxvii, pp. 55–83.

^{page 16 note 2} Several accounts speak of four entrances, but those to the N. and SE. are clearly breaches by modern foot-paths.

^{page 16 note 3} Our own rough estimate from the plan (excluding the area of the ramparts themselves) works out at 65 acres.

^{page 17 note 1} Col. Lane Fox, Journ. Anthrop. Inst. v, pp. 381–2, and pl. XVIII, fig. 8.

^{page 17 note 2} Ibid. pp. 377–8, 381. The same argument applies here as in the case of the Harrow Hill mine; see Sussex Arch. Coll. Ixvii, pp. 133–7.

^{page 17 note 3} Antiquity, i, pp. 272 ff.

^{page 23 note 1} Excavations by the Littlehampton Nature and Archaeology Circle, 1930; information by courtesy of the excavators.

^{page 27 note 1} Antiq. Journ. iv, p. 347; see also St. Catherine's Hill, p. 86 (pit R).

^{page 27 note 2} Sussex Arch. Coll. lxviii, p. 23.

^{page 27 note 3} Ibid. p. 15 and pl. v, fig. 33.

^{page 28 note 1} Sussex Arch. Coll. lxvii, pp. 73–4.

^{page 30 note 1} Sussex Arch. Coll. lxviii, pp. 20–1.

^{page 30 note 2} Ibid. LXX, p. 39.

^{page 31 note 1} Journ. Anthrop. Inst. v, p. 370.

^{page 31 note 2} Sussex Arch. Coll. lxviii, p. 28; lxx, pp. 65–6

^{page 32 note 1} Sussex Arch. Coll. lxx, pp. 76–7.

^{page 33 note 1} Archaeologia, lxxvi, pp. 6–9.

^{page 33 note 2} Arch. Camb. lxxxi, pp. 221–82.

^{page 33 note 3} Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion (1920–1), pp. 40–96.

^{page 35 note 1} Sussex Arch. Coll. LXX, pp. 76–7.

^{page 35 note 2} St. Catherine's Hill, pp. 169–88.

^{page 35 note 3} Mr. R. U. Sayce (Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion, 1920–1, p. 134) points out that in North Cardiganshire the large hill-forts (dinas) occur one in each commote of the Cantref Gwarthaf, suggesting that they may have been clan centres, while the smaller forts (caer) may have been the fortified homesteads of the lesser chieftains.

^{page 36 note 1} Brighton and Hove Archaeologist, iii, pp. 35–7.

^{page 36 note 2} Agricola, 14. We are indebted to Mr. Hawkes for this reference

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