Sussex Archaeological Collections: Relating to the history and antiquities of the counties of East and West Sussex
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A topographical survey of Chanctonbury Ring, West Sussex
AN INTERPRETATION OF THE PREHISTORIC LANDSCAPE FROM THE NEOLITHIC TO THE MIDDLE IRON AGE
by MARK TIBBLE
This article results from a topographical survey of the landscape and hillfort of Chanctonbury Ring, West Sussex, carried out in the summer of 2003 and the winter of 2004 by the author. Produced as an undergraduate dissertation for the University of Southampton, the survey has recorded the site as it was in 2004 and has provided a base for future management. It has also recorded previously unsurveyed features which may prove to be Bronze Age round barrows. The aim was to contextualize the hillfort within its immediate topographical setting. This has provided a background against which an interpretation might be made of the prehistoric use of the landscape. This work approached the idea of the landscape as being inscribed with meaning and significance that is carried over a long timescale beginning in the Neolithic, although it is interpreted against the varying cultural backgrounds of the prehistoric communities. It also considers the construction of the Late Bronze Age hillfort and views this construction in part as the creation of a physical link to the mythical past.
