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This report summarises the results of a series of archaeological investigations carried out between 2002 and 2010 on the site of the Roman buildings at White Beech, Chiddingfold. These involved a programme of fieldwalking, topographical and geophysical surveys and two phases of trial trenching, all with the objective of locating and establishing the state of preservation of the Roman buildings first recorded in the late 19th century. The location of the buildings was established, but these appear to have been almost totally robbed out in the 19th century - the site having subsequently been deep ploughed, with the result that, at least in the areas examined, no footings remain. However, magnetometry and trenching have shown the presence on the hilltop of a Late Iron Age enclosure as a precursor to the Roman buildings, and other work has produced evidence for the existence of a substantial Roman timber structure, possibly a building, slightly to the east of, and probably earlier than, the main building complex.