| Title: |
Excavations at Testers, White Horse Square, Steyning, 1985
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| Issue: |
Sussex Archaeological Collections 126 |
| Series: |
Sussex Archaeological Collections
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| Volume: |
126
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| Page Start/End: |
53 - 76 |
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Journal
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| Abstract: |
In advance of building work an area of open land at Testers, White Horse Square, was excavated. The site was crossed by two prehistoric ditches dated on the evidence of the pottery to the 9th century B. C. and to the latest pre-Roman Iron Age. A small number of Early Anglo-Saxon sherds were found at the top of the later ditch . A ditch with Saxo-Norman pottery may be a tenement boundary dating from the relocation of Steyning during the Medieval period. The area of excavation during the later J 3th and 14th centuries was initially occupied by a cistern. Later, rubbish and cess-pits were dug . The contents of the rubbish pits had been first deposited in middens before final disposal in pits. Evidence from the excavation confirms ideas on the development of the town of Steyning. |
| Year of Publication: |
1988
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| Locations: |
| Site: |
Testers, White Horse Square |
| Parish: |
Steyning |
| District: |
Horsham |
| County: |
West Sussex |
| Country: |
England |
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Grid Reference: 517580, 111120 (Easting, Northing)
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ADS Archive
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| Created Date: |
08 Jun 2021 |
