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Saxonbury is a much eroded and worn univallate hillfort dating from the late Bronze/early Iron Age, with a curious 19th century folly in the centre. The hillfort is located in woodland in the Weald of East Sussex a short distance from the A267, where there is a convenient layby just north of Danegate. The earthworks are clearly visible and excavations in the last century suggested that iron might have been produced there. They also revealed evidence of an earlier prehistoric enclosure. The fort is on the Eridge Park Estate owned by the Nevill family since 1448 and the folly was built by Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny in 1828. I think it looks like a rocket. A telecoms company currently uses it as a communications mast. It would be interesting to know the etymolgy of 'Saxonbury' - it suggests a defended place in later times?
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