Murphy, P. L. (2020). New archaeological recording on the beach at Medmerry, near Selsey, West Sussex. Sussex Archaeological Collections 158. Vol 158, Sussex Archaeological Society. pp. 191-213. https://doi.org/10.5284/1094240. Cite this via datacite
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New archaeological recording on the beach at Medmerry, near Selsey, West Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sussex Archaeological Collections 158 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sussex Archaeological Collections | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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191 - 213 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This report presents and interprets results obtained from shoreline monitoring and recording on the eroding shoreline of Medmerry, near Selsey, West Sussex, by the Chichester and District Archaeology Society (CDAS) from 2014 onwards. This is a community project which has received strong support from professional partners. The results show former land use and include Bronze Age burnt mounds, one of them including the base of a wattle fence; the Iron Age placing of a man’s body on a wooden structure; stationary fisheries dating to around 1500–1650; land claim and drainage from at least the 17th century; the casting-up of wreck-related artefacts, probably in the 18th–19th centuries; drainage and farming, including hay production, in the 19th and early 20th centuries; recreational use in the inter-war years of the 20th century; military use in the Second World War and up to 1954. Coastal archaeological monitoring is an open-ended process which does not have a clear end date, so it is probable that further finds will be made in the future, as erosion proceeds. The involvement of CDAS has enabled rapid interventions for recording immediately after storms, which is rarely possible for a professional organisation. As a consequence, archaeological sites which would otherwise have gone unrecorded have been documented. Monitoring will continue. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Supplementary material for this publication is available in the ADS Library | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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26 May 2022 |
