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Jaime
Kaminski
Sussex Archaeological Society
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Fieldwork undertaken over the past two decades has provided new insights into the Roman roadside settlement at Alfoldean. The results are significant for the interpretation not only of Alfoldean but also of similar sites within Sussex and lowland Britain as a whole. Intermittent investigation by Luke and others has included earthwork survey, field artefact collection, aerial photograph analysis and the salvage recording of a roadside trench dug through the site. Prior to this, work had focused on the mansio enclosure immediately south of the River Arun. The new evidence demonstrates that this is only a small part of a much larger settlement that originated in 1st century AD, possibly as one of a chain of deliberately planned settlements on the Chichester to London road (Stane Street). At its greatest extent it covered an area of over nine hectares