Highdown Hill

Human occupation of the hill is thought to have started in the Late Bronze Age (around 1000 BC) when an enclosure was built.

An Anglo-Saxon cemetery was created on the site around 450 AD which has produced an unusual number of glass objects, which can now be seen in Worthing Museum.

This cemetery was discovered by accident in the 1890s when local landowner Edwin Henty undertook tree planting inside the hillfort.

Local legend has it that a runaway millstone from this mill is the source of the name Roundstone for the farm at the foot of the hill, which was subsequently used for the nearby pub and garden centre.

[citation needed] During World War II a radar station was built on the hill and considerable damage was done to the archaeology during its construction.