Publications
A Promontory Camp above the High Rocks near Tunbridge Wells, by J. H. Money, published May 1940 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 2, article, pp.33-34) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library
An Interim Report on Excavations at High Rocks, Tunbridge Wells, 1940, by James H. Money, published 1941 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 82, article, pp.104-109) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2167] & The Keep [LIB/500347] & S.A.S. library
Excavations at High Rocks, Tunbridge Wells, 1954-1956, by James H. Money, published 1960 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 98, article, pp.173-221) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2183] & The Keep [LIB/500331] & S.A.S. library
Excavations at High Rocks, Tunbridge Wells, 1954 - 1956. Supplementary Note, by James H. Money, published 1962 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 100, supplement, pp.149-151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11489] & The Keep [LIB/500329] & S.A.S. library
Excavations in the Iron Age Hill-Fort at High Rocks, near Tunbridge Wells, 1957-1961, by James H. Money, published 1968 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 106, article, pp.158-205) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2191] & The Keep [LIB/500323] & S.A.S. library
Medieval Iron-Workings in Minepit Wood, Rotherfield, Sussex, by J. H. Money, published 1971 in Medieval Archaeology (vol. 15, article, pp.86-111) View Online
Excavations 1970: Castle Hill, near Tonbridge, Kent, by J. H. Money, published March 1971 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 2, article, p.5) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
Excavations 1972: Garden Hill, Hartfield, by J. H. Money, published May 1973 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 10, article, p.38) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
Excavations 1975: Garden Hill, Hartfield, by J. H. Money, published April 1976 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 18, article, p.80, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
Excavations 1976: Garden Hill, Hartfield, by J. H. Money, published April 1977 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 21, article, pp.112-113, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
The Iron-Age hill-fort and Romano-British iron-working settlement at Garden Hill, Sussex: interim report on excavations, 1968-76, by J. H. Money, M. G. Fulford and C. Eade, published November 1977 in Britannia (vol. 8, article, pp.339-350) View Online
Abstract:The earthwork at Garden Hill, Hartfield, East Sussex, until then unrecognised, was identified in 1968 by Mr C. F. Tebbutt, who found early Romano-British material in a trial excavation. Five seasons of excavation (1972-76) by the Garden Hill Excavation Group have established the broad outline of the site's history. A scatter of worked flints indicates slight occupation in the Neolithic/Bronze Age period. Attributed to the late pre-Roman Iron Age are a round house and part of what may be another. A hill-fort, with stonerevetted and palisaded defences, was built, possibly against the Roman invasion, but soon fell into disuse and was followed by Romano-British occupation. This included a rectangular timber building, roasting- and smeltingfurnaces and a forging-hearth of the first century; a rectangular building with two verandahs, using timber uprights set on padstones and in post-holes, and a four-post structure on the same alignment, both probably first-century; a timber building set on a stone platform and attached stone bath-building, of the second century; and undated post-hole and timber-slot systems (not fully excavated) representing fences and other timber structures. It is possible that Garden Hill was the base from which local iron-smelting sites were operated in the first and second centuries.
Excavations 1977: Garden Hill, Hartfield, by J. H. Money, published April 1978 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 24, article, p.142, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in Eridge Park, by James H. Money, published 1979 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 117, shorter notice, p.258) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7497] & The Keep [LIB/500312] & S.A.S. library
Excavations in the Iron-Age Hill Fort and Romano-British Iron-Working Settlement at Garden Hill, Hartfield, East Sussex (1968-1978), by J. H. Money and A. D. F. Streeten, published 1979 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 15, article, pp.16-26) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558] Download PDF
Abstract:Garden Hill, part of an area known as 'The Park', is a NE-pointing spur of high ground 1½ miles (2.4km.) east of Wych Cross and 3½ miles (5.6km.) SW of Hartfield (in which parish of East Sussex it lies), between 500 and 550 feet above sea level. The nearest towns are Tunbridge Wells, 10 miles (16km.) north-east, and East Grinstead, 5 miles (8km.) north-west. The ground falls away fairly steeply on the north, south and east sides of the hill, but there is a level approach from the west. The subsoil is Ashdown Sand. The top of the hill is mainly flat, growing luxuriant bracken, with a sprinkling of trees, chiefly sweet chestnut and birch, but including a few very old yews.
Garden Hill lies near a minor Roman road (Margary 148), which in turn connects with the main London-Lewes road (Margary 14) at Gallypot Street. If, as is likely, a road linked the Romano-British settlement to Route 148, it would probably have been on the NW side, where the intervening ground is flat.
It is clear from the archaeological excavation that sometime in the past the hill-top was lightly ploughed and, as part of The Park, it may have been under grass. At present, Garden Hill lies within the Army Training Area of Pippingford Park and is owned by the Ministry of Defence.
In 1968 our Chairman, Mr C.F. Tebbutt, discovered the earthwork, which encloses an oblong area of about 6.8 acres (2.7 hectares) on the hill and has been proved to be a late Iron Age hill-fort with a typical inturned entrance at the NE corner there is possibly another entrance at the NW corner.
After promising trial excavations in the SE corner by Mr Tebbutt, in which first-century AD Romano-British material was found, the earthwork and the area which it enclosed were scheduled as an Ancient Monument by the then Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, fenced off from the rest of the Training Area and placed out of bounds to troops. The earthwork was surveyed and a plan drawn by Mr E.W. Holden.
In 1972, a small group, directed by Mr J.H. Money and Mr Tebbutt, investigated an area where buried structures were evident and excavated what turned out to be a small but complete 2nd-century AD Romano-British bath-building.
Following these encouraging results the Garden Hill Excavation Group was formed with the support of the Sussex Archaeological Society, and excavation on a much larger scale has taken place annually since 1973. These excavations have produced evidence of Neolithic/Bronze Age/Early pre-Roman Iron Age occupation of the hill-top and uncovered remains of the late pre-Roman Iron Age and a Romano-British iron-working settlement of the first, second and early third centuries AD.
Garden Hill lies near a minor Roman road (Margary 148), which in turn connects with the main London-Lewes road (Margary 14) at Gallypot Street. If, as is likely, a road linked the Romano-British settlement to Route 148, it would probably have been on the NW side, where the intervening ground is flat.
It is clear from the archaeological excavation that sometime in the past the hill-top was lightly ploughed and, as part of The Park, it may have been under grass. At present, Garden Hill lies within the Army Training Area of Pippingford Park and is owned by the Ministry of Defence.
In 1968 our Chairman, Mr C.F. Tebbutt, discovered the earthwork, which encloses an oblong area of about 6.8 acres (2.7 hectares) on the hill and has been proved to be a late Iron Age hill-fort with a typical inturned entrance at the NE corner there is possibly another entrance at the NW corner.
After promising trial excavations in the SE corner by Mr Tebbutt, in which first-century AD Romano-British material was found, the earthwork and the area which it enclosed were scheduled as an Ancient Monument by the then Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, fenced off from the rest of the Training Area and placed out of bounds to troops. The earthwork was surveyed and a plan drawn by Mr E.W. Holden.
In 1972, a small group, directed by Mr J.H. Money and Mr Tebbutt, investigated an area where buried structures were evident and excavated what turned out to be a small but complete 2nd-century AD Romano-British bath-building.
Following these encouraging results the Garden Hill Excavation Group was formed with the support of the Sussex Archaeological Society, and excavation on a much larger scale has taken place annually since 1973. These excavations have produced evidence of Neolithic/Bronze Age/Early pre-Roman Iron Age occupation of the hill-top and uncovered remains of the late pre-Roman Iron Age and a Romano-British iron-working settlement of the first, second and early third centuries AD.
Excavation Report: Garden Hill, Hartfield, East Sussex, by J. H. Money, M.A., F.S.A. and A. D. F. Streeten, B.A., published April 1979 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 27, article, p.180, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
Suspected Roman road linking the London-Lewes road (Margary 14) with trans-Wealden track VII, by James H. Money, published 1980 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 118, archaeological note, pp.367-369) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7805] & The Keep [LIB/500305] & S.A.S. library
Excavation Report 1979: Garden Hill, Hartfield, East Sussex, by J. Money, published April 1980 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 30, article, p.201, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
Excavation Report 1980: Garden Hill, Hartfield, by J. Money, published August 1981 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 34, article, pp.242-243, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF