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Pits Copse, Lodsworth, West Sussex

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Address: Pits Copse, one mile west of Lodsworth
Lodsworth
County: West Sussex
Postcode: GU28 9DJ
Nearest Town: Midhurst
Map Reference: SU921236
Grid Reference: E: 492189 N: 123666
Further Information: Today, this a series of well preserved mounds and hollows, sometimes with very steep slopes. Among the rubble were found four unfinished quern fragments. This site supplied Iron Age and Roman quernstones from late Bronze Age to the Late Roman period, and its heyday was in the 1st century AD.
Associated Name(s): Pits Copse, Lodsworth, West Sussex.
Period(s) Quarried: Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman.