| Title: |
Remembering 'Round-the-Down': topographical perspectives on early settlement and land-use at Southerham, near Lewes.
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| Subtitle: |
topographical perspectives on early settlement and land-use at Southerham, near Lewes |
| Issue: |
Sussex Archaeological Collections 143 |
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Sussex Archaeological Collections
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| Volume: |
143
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| Page Start/End: |
117 - 134 |
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Journal
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| Abstract: |
Archaeological and documentary evidence, taken together, suggest the enduring significance of a subtle downland feature on the steep southern slope of the Malling--Caburn Downs. Named `Round-the-Down' on the 1873 Ordnance Survey map, this small rounded hill is one of the few local landforms still noted by present-day cartographers. The site of an Early Bronze Age barrow constructed alongside prehistoric fields, it retained a distinct identity well beyond prehistoric times. Within the settlement of Southerham, throughout the rise and fall of a peasant community, it became the focal point of a common field and a network of trackways, traces of which remain. Thus the barrow and its hill may have helped to define a landscape that remained in cultivation over four millennia. |
| Year of Publication: |
2005
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Millennia (Auto Detected Subject) |
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BARROW
(Monument Type England)
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SETTLEMENT
(Monument Type England)
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| Source: |
ADS Archive
(ADS Archive)
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| Created Date: |
05 Mar 2007 |
