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Jaime
Kaminski
Sussex Archaeological Society
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A new course for the London to Brighton Roman road in the Hassocks area and
through the Clayton Gap is proposed and described. The existence of an
unsuspected Roman road passing northward from the Hassocks area towards the
ancient iron-working sites at Crawley is suggested, which has implications
for a possible Iron Age road in the region, and for the Roman settlement at
Ham Farm in Hassocks. The Clayton Gap findings clarify the changes that were
made to the London to Brighton stage-coach road there between 1770 and 1818.
Some discussion is given of the possible further course of the Roman road from
the Clayton Gap to the coast.