The largest hill fort in Sussex

Cissbury Ring, a 208-acre Site of Special Scientific Interest in West Sussex, is England’s second largest hill fort and features one of the UK’s first known flint mines. The site, owned by the National Trust, boasts 270 mining shafts, up to 12 metres deep, carved into Cissbury Hill over around 900 years of use.

The hill fort's fortifications were built around the beginning of the Middle Iron-Age, possibly around 250 BC. Approximately eight interconnected galleries run from the bottoms of the shafts, witnessing the transition from open-cast to deep-shaft mining. The hill fort also encompasses a defensive wall, lined with a timber palisade, which has been damaged by illicit metal detecting.

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