Goosehill Camp is a prehistoric earthwork that dates back to the Iron Age. It consists of two concentric banks and ditches. The inner enclosure has one entrance and surround two levelled hut sites. Goosehill Camp is within the Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve, on the South Downs

South Downs

The South Downs is a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east. It is bounded on its northern side by a steep escarpment, from whose...

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Excavations

Goosehill Camp's first recorded excavation was carried out by J. R. Boyden. This excavation was carried out between 1953 and 1955.

1950s Excavation team

Post	Name
Site Director	J. R. Boyden
Site Supervisor	Peter Tennant
Site Supervisor	Frank Hawtin
Site Assistants	Pupils from Bedales School Bedales School Bedales School is a co-educational independent school situated in Hampshire, in the south east of England. Founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conventional Victorian schools, today the school is one of the most expensive in the UK, charging £9,985 per term for a...
Site Assistant	John Kenchenton
Site Assistant	Mrs. Kenchenton
Illustrator	C. H. Byrne
Illustrator	F. Hawtin
Illustrator	A. E. Sewell
Advisor	Stuart Piggott C.B.E. Stuart Piggott Stuart Ernest Piggott CBE was a British archaeologist best known for his work on prehistoric Wessex.Born in Petersfield, Hampshire, Piggott was educated at Churcher's College and on leaving school in 1927 took up a post as assistant at Reading Museum where he developed an expertise in Neolithic...
Advisor	Dr. A. E. Wilson
Advisor	A. H. Collins
Advisor	G. P. Burstow F.S.A.
Advisor	M. A. Burstow

The most recent excavation took place between 2008-2009 and was carried out by the University College London

University College London

University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

's Institute of Archaeology

Institute of Archaeology

The UCL Institute of Archaeology is an academic department of the Social & Historical Sciences Faculty of University College London , England. It is one of the largest departments of archaeology in the world, with over 80 members of academic staff and 500 students...

, under Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts (archaeologist)

Mark Brian Roberts is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of the Palaeolithic. He is best known for his discovery and subsequent excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Boxgrove Quarry in southern England. He is also a teacher and Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of...

. These excavations were complemented by a topographical survey and a magnetometry survey.