Coombe Hill, East Sussex facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Coombe Hill |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 194 m (636 ft) |
| Prominence | c. 20 m |
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| Location | South Downs, England |
| OS grid | TQ576022 |
| Topo map | OS Landranger 194 |
Coombe Hill or Combe Hill is the name of a hill near Jevington in the English county of East Sussex. It is the site of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and much later archaeological evidence.
Built around 3200 BC, the enclosure consists of two concentric, segmented ditches with an internal area measuring around 6,000 m2.
Excavations in 1949 found animal bone, flint tools and Ebbsfleet type Peterborough ware at the site. A small engraved conical chalk block has also been recovered from the centre.
Later Bronze Age bowl barrows were erected around the enclosure and even Roman pottery was found in the upper layers of the ditch fills, indicating that the site remained significant over a long period of time.
The word coombe is derived from Brythonic, and means "hollow".
Images for kids
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Combe Hill
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Plan of Combe Hill enclosure showing location of excavations. Musson's trenches in 1949 are in yellow, labelled 1 and 2, and Seton-Williams' trenches in 1962 are in blue, labelled A through G.
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Combe Hill
