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From Pastscape:
"An Early Iron Age oval palisaded settlement situated on a natural
chalk knoll at Staple Howe was excavated by T C M Brewster between
1951-56 and 1958 who revealed that the palisade had been
re-aligned once and modified at least twice. Within the enclosure
the oval hut was considered to belong to the earliest phase, but in
the later phase this was abandoned and replaced by two round huts and
a centrally placed four-post structure interpreted as a watch tower.
or possibly a shrine.
The large quantity of Iron Age pottery recovered from the site
included mainly Hallstatt influenced wares and early La Tene types
. Other finds were bronze objects, including three Hallstatt 'C', razors, tweezers, tanged chisels and socketed axe fragment; iron loop
and pin; jet armlets and rings; bone and antler working pieces;
pottery loomweights and spindle-whorls; stone and flint artefacts.
Fragments of human remains representing at least two individuals were
also discovered. Carbon 14 determination on carbonised grain from
the quarried hollow gave a date of 2,400 +/-150 years. All the
finds, photographs and records are in the British Museum.
Harding considered that the plan of the internal huts at Staple
Howe were more comparable with the mid-late Bronze Age buildings of
Shearplace Hill, Dorset or Itford Hill, West Sussex
and that some of the pottery was also suggestive of
Bronze Age antecedents, including fragments reminiscent of bucket-urn
forms.
These factors together with the structural complexities of the
palisaded enclosure argued a prolonged occupation of the site; the
6th century Hallstatt bronzes and radio-carbon dating, may not,
therefore, be representative of the earliest occupation on the site."
http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=62281
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