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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Rackham Hill Earthwork and Tumuli Alternative Name: An unenclosed Iron Age urnfield and associated remains on Rackham Hill, 900m SSE of Rackham FarmCountry: England County: West Sussex Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Storrington
Map Ref: TQ0529712589
Latitude: 50.903184N Longitude: 0.503887W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Spiderdrone visited on 2nd Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: -1 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Parking in the nearby Parham Post road (Kithurst Hill) and a short walk along the SDW but nothing to see, which is unfortunate however there are plenty of fantastic views.
There are several other locations within the same spot however, these too are gone however one remains which is not on the website but nothing much to see.
Records suggest that the mound, the edge of which has been partly disturbed by modern ploughing, is surrounded by a now infilled construction ditch up to c.1.5m wide. The grave mound was investigated in 1929, when a centrally placed cremation burial and associated fragments of an Iron Age cinerary urn were discovered. The second grave mound lies c.46m to the north east and has a circular mound c.9m in diameter and up to c.0.3m high, surrounded by an infilled construction ditch c.1m wide. Further, associated unmarked burials are likely to survive in the areas between and around the grave mounds. The associated enclosure, interpreted as a contemporary ritual monument, lies between the grave mounds and survives as a roughly east-west aligned, raised sub-rectangular platform measuring c.12m by c.10m. Part excavation in 1929 revealed that the central area is paved with large flint nodules. The platform is enclosed by a low bank up to c.0.5m high and c.6m wide, surrounded by a `v'-shaped ditch. The ditch has become infilled due to the encroachment of modern ploughing onto the southern periphery of the enclosure, but will survive as a buried feature up to c.4m wide.
Source: Historic England
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