Mount Caburn

Mount Caburn is a 150-metre hill east of Lewes in East Sussex bearing an Iron Age multivallate hillfort of about 1.74 hectares. First excavated by Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1877-78, then by the Curwens in the 1920s-30s and the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1996-98, the site has seen some 170 trenches. Interior pits yielded British coins, slingstones, spindle whorls, pottery, and disarticulated human and animal bones. Recent research suggests the deposits may reflect ritual activity rather than purely defensive or domestic use.