Offham Hill

Offham Hill is a causewayed enclosure near Lewes, East Sussex, England [1]. The Ordnance Survey inspected the site in 1972 and recommended an excavation, which was carried out in 1976 by Peter Drewett [1]. The majority of Drewett's finds came from the ditches, including about 7,000 worked flints, nearly 300 sherds of pottery, a human burial, other human bone, and animal remains [1]. Most of the pottery was identified as Neolithic, and radiocarbon dating of charcoal found in one of the ditches confirmed that the enclosure dated to the Neolithic [1]. A reanalysis of the radiocarbon dates in 2011 concluded that the enclosure was constructed in the mid-fourth millennium BC [1]. The site is on the north face of Offham Hill, above the Ouse valley, on the edge of the South Downs, north of Lewes [1]. The eastern part of the site was completely destroyed by a chalk quarry during the 19th century [1].