HOLLINGBURY CAMP. 
This is a very ancient fortified post on a height of the 
Downs, situated near the Ditchling Road, and between that 
road and the Lewes Road, from which latter, however, it is 
separated by a steep hill-side. It was acquired by the Town 
partly in 1901 and the rest in 1903, subject to conditions 
that nothing should be done there which would destroy or 
depreciate the archzeological associations of the Camp, and 
so that the land can only be used for the purpose ofa Public 
Park, Recreation Ground, or Botanical Gardens, and that no 
building may be erected there and no alcoholic drinks sold 
thereon. 
It was probably constructed in very early times, before 
the Romans invaded Britain. Only the rampart of earth, 
with the dry ditch cutside, remains. These are here and 
‘there levelled. Probably the rampart was originally 
surmounted with a stockade; but, if so, no trace can, of 
course, be expected to remain visible. It is very difficult 
to realise how the occupants of such camps supplied 
themselves with water. 
Many of the higher summits of the Downs are crowned 
with similar camps. From Hollingbury can be seen the 
following, nine in number, commencing toward the South 
West and following toward the North, and so round to the 
South East :— 
High Down Hill (close to the Miller’s Tomb, 4 miles 
beyond Worthing). Here, in one spot, antiquities of the 
Bronze Age, and in another, an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery 
with very fine remains, have been discovered. 
Cissbury (3 miles North of Worthing). One of the 
best known and finest of the hill forts of the South Downs. 
Great numbers of Neolithic flint implements, mostly of rude 
manufacture, have beer found here. Numerous prehistoric 
pits with underground gaileries, apparently for procuring 
the flints used for these implements, have been excavated 
on this site. The picks, made of antlers of red deer, and 
shovels, made of the shoulder blades of oxen, used by the 
original excavators have been found in the galleries, some 
of them with the finger marks of the old, prehistoric users, 
still plain on the pulverised chalk rubbed into the handles. 
