Data copyright © Sussex Archaeological Society unless otherwise stated
This work is licensed under the ADS Terms of Use and Access.
Jaime
Kaminski
Sussex Archaeological Society
Barbican House
169 High Street
Lewes
BN8 1YE
One of the more common finds made on later prehistoric sites in Sussex is
humanly-transported stone. By reviewing traditional approaches to such
finds and considering the implications of their study - in context - for
a range of differing social models previously applied to the interpretation
of the important Middle Bronze Age settlement site of Black Patch, Alciston,
the present paper demonstrates how such study can inform our understanding of
the later prehistoric period generally. Clasts (pieces of stone comprising
the whole or part of a stone object) are considered in relation to each other,
to non-stone finds from the site, and to the various features from which they
were recovered.