More information : (TQ 13650766 - TQ 13700772) Earthwork (GT)(1)
A bank and ditch 7 and 13 ft across respectively starting from
a depression at the base of the outer rampart of Cissbury. Bank and ditch now nearly obliterated but may be followed for about 166 yds in a direct line to the top of Shipden's Holt. It resembles a Covered Way.(2)
The western end of a cross-ridge dyke, the greater part of which is apparently overlaid by Cissbury IA hillfort, [TQ 10 NW 1]. Emerging from below the ditch counter-scarp at TQ 13710770, the dyke can be traced downhill for 80.0m as far as a footpath at TQ 13640765, beyond which undergrowth and bushes on steepening slopes are too dense to permit further investigation, but it is likely that the work did not continue further in this direction. No trace of the dyke has been found across the ridge or upon its eastern slopes above Deep Bottom.
The extant portion comprises a ditch 4.0m wide, 0.3m deep, with a bank on southern side, 6.0m wide, 0.5m high.
Published 1:2500 survey revised direct on Field Document Astrafoil.(3)
Linear earthwork could not be located during 1993 RCHME field survey. One possible explanation is that spoil heaps associated with the neolithic flint mining complex (TQ 10 NW 4) do have some degree of linearity in this area and may have been misinterpreted. (4) |