Bell, M. (1977). Excavations at Bishopstone. Sussex Archaeological Collections 115. Vol 115, pp. 1-299. https://doi.org/10.5284/1085369. Cite this via datacite

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Excavations at Bishopstone
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Sussex Archaeological Collections 115
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Sussex Archaeological Collections
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115
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1 - 299
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This hilltop in East Sussex which overlooks the English Channel was occupied for much of the time between the beginning of the third millennium B.C. and the sixth century A.D. Neolithic occupation is represented by a series of pits, one of which contained an interesting group of flint tools, with associated environmental evidence. There is then a hiatus with only slight traces of occupation in the Bronze Age. During the early Iron Age a small farming settlement was established near the crest of the hill. Unenclosed in its primary phase, it was later surrounded by a rectangular enclosure, outside which were fields. Excavation showed that the latter were cultivated intermittently from the Neolithic to Romano-British periods. The Iron Age structures were mostly of the four and six-post types. Occupation continued throughout the Romano-British period in the early part of which a rectangular enclosure was laid out. The fifth century A.D. saw the establishment of an Anglo-Saxon settlement of rectangular buildings and sunken huts, which covered part of the earlier settlement and spread out over the former fields. On the edge of the settlement was a contemporary cemetery. Each period has produced evidence of the environment and economy. Studies of land and marine mollusc assemblages are included, and an attempt is made to classify pottery and clay objects on the basis of their contained minerals and to pinpoint possible clay sources.
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Martin Bell
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1977
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Site: Rookery Hill
Grid Reference: 546919, 100895 (Easting, Northing)
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NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
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08 Jun 2021