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=== Slonk Hill ===
[[File:Track between Slonk Hill Farm and Mossy Bottom Barn - geograph.org.uk - 712703.jpg|thumb|left|Track between Slonk Hill Farm and Mossy Bottom Barn]]
Slonk Hill ({{gbmappingsmall|TQ 222 070}}): there were at least two [[Bronze Age]] [[tumulus|barrows]] and a little [[Iron Age]] settlement on the Hill.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Historic England Research Records: Slonk Hill|url=https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=398691&resourceID=19191|access-date=2022-01-08|website=Heritage Gateway}}</ref> They were surrounded by a rectangular ditched enclosure and perhaps made into a 'temenos' or temple. Ritual deposits of animals and coins were buried at the site.<ref>Rudling, David (2003). ''The Archaeology of Sussex to AD 2000'',

Heritage Marketing Publications Ltd</ref><sup>:122</sup> Evening shadows reveal dips and hummocks at the Hill's southern end, although they are probably due to the trench digging of the large army camp that came here during the First World War.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

There are three places that were spared the damage of decades of [[agribusiness]] on the hill: an island of old Down pasture on the eastern slope, an old bostal track, which winds down the slope at its southern end, and a patch of hillside a few hundred yards north, surrounded by [[Iron Age]] field [[lynchet]]s. More recently, the use of agrochemicals has stopped, and the hillside is again colourful with herbs. The intact areas have [[pyramidal orchid]], [[Dactylorhiza fuchsii|spotted orchid]], [[meadow oat-grass]], [[crested hair-grass]], and [[round-headed rampion]].<ref name=":0" /><sup>:206</sup>