| Title: |
An Archaeological Excavation. Arunside (Lineside) Industrial Easte, Fort Road, Littlehampton. West Sussex |
| Number of Pages: |
41 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Report
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| Abstract: |
The excavation involved the monitoring of the machine stripping of the topsoil and subsoil across the site with hand excavation and recording of archaeological features. The earliest phase of activity on the site dated to the Bronze Age with one semi-circular ditch found near the centre of the site. Post holes were found in the termini on either side of an entranceway through this ditch which probably once held posts to mark or form a gateway. The ditch may have acted as an agricultural enclosure or boundary rather than have been related to a settlement as there was no settlement evidence in the vicinity. The evidence did no indicated a specifically ritual use. During the Iron Age the site was developed into a rectilinear field system surviving as parallel, narrow, fairly shallow ditches. These ditches appeared to have been in use during the Early Roman period. However, in the Late Roman period, the general alignment of this system altered slightly aligned from a north-west to south-east and north-east to south-west alignment to a north-northeast to south-south-east alignment with three parallel ditches. The most easterly of the Roman ditches was particularly substantial in comparison to the other features and may have formed a boundary between the arable land to the west and the settlement at Wickbourne Estate to the east. No signs of Iron Age or Roman domestic activity were found on the site. A line of four post holes parallel to one of the Iron Age ditches may have supported a fence line rather than any kind of dwelling structure. Finds were few across the site but small fragments of dateable pottery were found in many of the ditches along with several flint flakes, a few flint cores and a flint scraper. [Au(abr)] |
| Author: |
S Adams
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| Publisher: |
AOC Archaeology Ltd
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| Year of Publication: |
2004
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| Locations: |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Wickbourne Estate |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Roman (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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ROMAN
(Historic England Periods)
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ROMAN
(Historic England Periods)
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BRONZE AGE
(Historic England Periods)
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IRON AGE
(Historic England Periods)
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
2004
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: ARUNSIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, FORT ROAD, LITTLEHAMPTON
Study area:
Investigation type: Post-determination/Research
District: Arun
Monument: DITCH. Roman (AD43-410), DITCH. Bronze Age, POST HOLE. Bronze Age, [finds]. Bronze Age, [finds]. Iron Age, [finds]. Roman (AD43-410)
Ngr: TQ02000260
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| Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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| Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |
