Ditchling Beacon

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) To the north of Brighton at the end of Ditchling Road lies the degraded univallate contour hillfort, Ditchling Beacon. Simple rampart with infilled ditch. SW side lost to ploughing but can just be made out on the LiDAR. Excavated in 1930. Iron Age & Roman pottery finds. Geophys in 2000AD found two prehistoric features. Medieval beacon hearth mound, part of a chain of beacons along the South Downs. (“Gondor calls for aid!”) Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Regni (Scheduled Monument)