The trundle
The Trundle ( Old English for "the circle"; also called St Roche's hillfort ) is an Iron Age hillfort near Chichester in West Sussex in England . The Hillfort with accesses in the northeast and southwest encloses almost 6 hectares. The wall, made up of a series of nine often straight pieces, is very well preserved. At the highest point of the enclosure was once the church of St Roche's church .
The fortification was made in the middle of the 1st millennium BC. Built on St Roche's Hill . It surrounds or overlays the small remains of an approximately 6000 year old Neolithic mine ( English causewayed enclosure ) with probably five rings. The trench sections excavated by E. and Cecil Curwen (in the presence of the young Stuart Piggott ) mostly contained flint , animal bones (cattle, pigs, sheep and deer) and ceramics from the Windmill Hill culture .
There is little evidence of activity during the Bronze Age , but there are two linear earthworks outside the large enclosure and the remains of a circular burial mound inside the hill fort that could date from this period.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 33 " N , 0 ° 45 ′ 13.6" W.