There are 931 scheduled monuments in the county of East Sussex, England. [1] These protected sites date from the Neolithic period and include barrows, moated sites, ruined abbeys, Iron Age hillforts, and a hill figure. [2] In the United Kingdom, the scheduling of monuments was first initiated to ensure the preservation of "nationally important" archaeological sites or historic buildings. Protection is given to scheduled monuments under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. [3]
Image | Name | Location | Date | Notes |
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Battle Abbey | 50°54′52″N0°29′13″E / 50.91432°N 0.48683°E | 1094 | The ruined Benedictine abbey was built on the site of the Battle of Hastings. [4] | |
Bodiam Castle | 51°00′08″N0°32′37″E / 51.0023°N 0.5435°E | 14th century | Ruined quadrangular castle with the original moat, towers and portcullis. [5] | |
Greyfriars, Winchelsea | 50°55′18″N0°42′37″E / 50.9218°N 0.7103°E | 1242 AD | The monument consists of a ruined monastery of the Order of Friars Minor. It is considered the best example of Franciscan architecture in England. [6] | |
Hollingbury Castle | 50°51′19″N0°7′23″W / 50.85528°N 0.12306°W | 8th to 5th centuries BC | The site contains an Iron Age hillfort and three Bronze Age bowl barrows. [7] | |
Lewes Castle | 50°52′22″N0°00′27″E / 50.8729°N 0.0076°E | 1066 AD | The monument is a motte and bailey castle with the unusual feature of two mottes. [8] | |
Long Man of Wilmington | 50°48′36″N0°11′17″E / 50.810°N 0.188°E | Unknown | The monument is the largest representation of the human form in Europe. [9] | |
Pevensey Castle | 50°49′08″N0°20′03″E / 50.8188°N 0.3342°E | Fort: 3rd century AD, Castle 1066 AD | The monument includes a Roman Saxon Shore fort, an 11th-century enclosure castle, and the remains of later defenses. [10] | |
Portslade Manor | 50°50′36″N0°13′05″W / 50.8432°N 0.2181°W | 12th century | One of a small number of remaining Norman manor houses in England. In 1807, the fortified manor was abandoned when a new manor house was built and it was later used as an almshouse for the poor. [11] [12] | |
Whitehawk Camp | 50°49′39″N0°6′43″W / 50.82750°N 0.11194°W | 3700 BC to 3500 BC | An early Neolithic causewayed enclosure which originally consisted of a circular area surrounded by concentric rings of banks and ditches. These monuments were probably used for many functions, including defense, rituals and funerary purposes. [13] | |
Wilmington Priory | 50°49′02″N0°11′25″E / 50.8173°N 0.1903°E | 11th century | The Benedictine Priory was founded before 1243 on the site of an earlier settlement of the Grestain Abbey in Normandy, France. [14] |
Brighton and Hove is a unitary authority with city status in East Sussex, England. There are multiple villages alongside the seaside resorts of Brighton and Hove in the district. It is administered by Brighton and Hove City Council, which is currently under Labour majority control.
Knook Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Knook Down, near the village of Knook in Wiltshire, England, but largely within the civil parish of Upton Lovell. It has also been interpreted as a defensive cattle enclosure associated with nearby Romano-British settlements. It is roughly rectangular in plan with a single entrance on the south/south-east side, but with a later break in the wall on the western side. The site is a scheduled monument.
Ceredigion is a large rural county in West Wales. It has a long coastline of Cardigan Bay to the west and the remote moorland of the Cambrian Mountains in the east, with the mountainous terrain of Plynlimon in the northeast. Ceredigion has a total of 264 scheduled monuments. That is too many to have on a single list page, so for convenience the list is divided into two, 163 prehistoric sites and 101 Roman, Medieval and Post Medieval sites.
Bath and North East Somerset is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon, which had existed since 1974. Part of the ceremonial county of Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of 220 square miles (570 km2), two-thirds of which is green belt. It stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border. The city of Bath is the principal settlement in the district, but BANES also covers Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the Chew Valley. The area has a population of 170,000, about half of whom live in Bath, making it 12 times more densely populated than the rest of the area.
Mendip is a local government district of Somerset in England. The Mendip district covers a largely rural area of 285 square miles (738 km2) ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels. It has a population of approximately 110,000. The administrative centre of the district is Shepton Mallet but the largest town is Frome.
Beacon Hill, also known as Harting Beacon, is a hillfort on the South Downs, in the county of West Sussex in southern England. The hillfort is located in the parish of Elsted and Treyford, in Chichester District. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument with a list entry identification number of 1015915. The hilltop enclosure is dated to the Late Bronze Age, from the 8th to 6th centuries BC. The hillfort defences were renewed during the Late Iron Age.
Hollingbury Castle, also known as Hollingbury Camp and Hollingbury Hillfort, is an Iron Age hillfort on the northern edge of Brighton, in East Sussex, England. It is adjacent to Hollingbury Park Golf Course.
This is a list of scheduled monuments in the English county of Lancashire.
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There are 121 scheduled monuments in the county of Buckinghamshire, in England. These protected sites date from the Neolithic period in some cases and include barrows, moated sites, ruined abbeys, Iron Age hillforts, a medieval hospital and a holy well. In the United Kingdom, the scheduling of monuments was first initiated to ensure the preservation of "nationally important" archaeological sites or historic buildings. Protection is given to scheduled monuments under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.
There are 1274 scheduled monuments in the county of Cumbria, in North West England. These protected sites date from the Neolithic period and include barrows, stone circles, Roman forts, standing stones, 19th century industrial sites, abbeys, and ruined castles. In the United Kingdom, the scheduling of monuments was first initiated to ensure the preservation of "nationally important" archaeological sites or historic buildings. Protection is given to scheduled monuments under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.
There are 425 scheduled monuments in the county of Essex, England. These protected sites date from the Neolithic period in some cases and include barrows, moated sites, ruined abbeys, castles, and a windmill. In the United Kingdom, the scheduling of monuments was first initiated to ensure the preservation of "nationally important" archaeological sites or historic buildings. Protection given to scheduled monuments under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.
There are 221 scheduled monuments in the county of Northamptonshire, England. These protected sites date in some cases from the Neolithic period and include barrows, artillery forts, ruined abbeys, castles, and Iron Age hill forts. In the United Kingdom, the scheduling of monuments was first initiated to ensure the preservation of "nationally important" archaeological sites or historic buildings. Protection is given to scheduled monuments under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.
There are 689 scheduled monuments in the county of Kent, England. These protected sites date in some cases from the Neolithic period, and include barrows, artillery forts, ruined abbeys, castles, and Iron Age hill forts. In the United Kingdom, the scheduling of monuments was first initiated to ensure the preservation of "nationally important" archaeological sites and historic buildings. Protection is given to scheduled monuments under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.