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Jaime
Kaminski
Sussex Archaeological Society
Barbican House
169 High Street
Lewes
BN8 1YE
with contributions from
Luke Barber
Samantha Crawt
David Dunkin
Lucy Sibun
Pat Hinton
Excavations in September 2001 of an area measuring c. 10 m by c. 7 m within the historic core of the town revealed a total of 32 archaeological features, including structural remains, rubbish pits, cesspits and post-holes. There was some modern truncation and an extension to the area uncovered a probable Victorian well. However, the majority of the datable features encountered were medieval, ranging in date from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, with some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century material.
Medieval finds included pottery, both local and imported in origin and glazed and unglazed fragments of roof and floor tile. Large quantities of oyster shell and a small assemblage of animal bone were also recovered. Environmental evidence was recovered from a number of the features.