Hollingbury Castle

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) North of Brighton’s town centre and within Hollingbury Park Golf Course lies the univallate partial contour hillfort, Hollingbury Castle. First excavated in 1908. Last excavated in 1969. (Evidence of five roundhouses found) Originally a Bronze Age enclosure. Three Bronze Age bowl barrows in a line of decreasing size can be made out on the LiDAR. Hillfort construction dated to circa 600BC. Roman pottery excavated. Remains of Romano-Celtic temple on site. One of the bowl barrows was possibly used as a Medieval beacon base. Modern disturbance due to army training in WW1 & WW2. Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Regni (Scheduled Monument)