There is a single bank and ditch, in roughly the shape of a square with rounded corners, enclosing an area of about Шаблон:Convert. There are original entrances on the east and west sides, the western entrance being inturned on both sides.[2] The pottery found during excavations dates from about 450–250 BC.[3]
The enclosure contains three Bronze Agebowl barrows, aligned roughly north-south near the centre. There is documentary evidence suggesting that the southernmost barrow, of diameter about Шаблон:Convert and height about Шаблон:Convert, was the site of a beacon in medieval and post-medieval periods.[1]
Excavations
There was excavation of the site by E. C. Curwen in 1931. It was established that there was an earlier, slightly smaller enclosure: the eastern side of this survives as a low bank aligned north-south, with a filled-in ditch to its east, about Шаблон:Convert within the eastern rampart, the other sides of the earlier enclosure being beneath the later fort.[1][3]
The 1931 excavation also revealed postholes at the north-east side and east entrance, showing that the rampart was originally a box rampart, filled with rubble and reinforced with timbers, with a berm and a ditch beyond the outer timbers. Modern posts were placed to mark the position of the postholes.[2][3]
Excavation of 1967–69 showed the remains of five round houses, of diameters Шаблон:Convert, from the early 6th century BC, in the south-west corner.[1]
↑ 2,02,1Richard Wainwright. "Hollingbury Hill-Fort". A guide to the Prehistoric Remains in Britain: Volume One:South and East. Constable, 1978. Page 233.
