Hollingbury Castle

Hollingbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on the northern edge of Brighton, East Sussex, enclosing about 3.6 hectares within a single bank and ditch of roughly square plan with rounded corners. The site has multi-period use: Bronze Age bowl barrows dating to around 1500 BC occupy the interior, while the hillfort itself was constructed in the 6th century BC. Excavations by Herbert S. Toms in 1908 and Cecil Curwen in 1931 revealed five round houses in the southwest corner, dating to the early 6th century BC, and a distinctive rampart construction of timber box-frame filled with chalk rubble. The fort also contains possible remains of a Romano-Celtic temple, indicating continued use into the Roman period.