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Sussex Past & Present 74
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Sussex Past & Present 74
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Sussex Past & Present
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10 Apr 2002
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Southern Archaeology: a new name rises in the west
John Magilton
5
Reports the establishment of Southern Archaeology, under the aegis of YAT, in 1994. The essential history of activity in the area, from post-WWII beginnings in Chichester, is charted.
Romans and Saxons on the golf course
Chris Butler
6 - 7
Excavations in advance of golf course construction at Friars Oak, Hassocks, revealed a sunken featured building of possible Mid-Saxon date according to the pottery found in association. Nearby postholes containing Saxon pottery may represent a further building or fence lines. A ditch running north--south which matches the alignment of a nearby bank may represent a medieval park boundary. Investigations in a number of ponds along an existing stream line produced evidence of a hitherto unknown section of Roman road beneath which were remains of an earlier trackway (LIA--early RB). Quantities of RB building material were also located. A dark peaty layer in one of the ponds yielded waterlogged deposits including Saxon pottery, animal bone, burnt flint, a pair of tweezers, spindle-whorl, and shaped wooden stakes in association with interwoven wood possibly representing a revetment against the stream bank. Other features included an area of flint and sandstone (possibly a Roman wall), undated possible hearth/oven, two chalk-filled drains, burnt charcoal area, and a raised sandstone level in association with a quernstone and Saxon pottery surrounded by postholes which appears to have been a building destroyed by fire.
The Romans in Pevensey
Michael G Fulford
8 - 9
Further work at the site disproved earlier theories about the presence of a Norman motte (see also 95/646 & 95/650) finding instead that the trench had cut across RB and early medieval `dark earth' occupation layers. Medieval excavation to a depth of five metres cut down to the foundations of the Roman wall which had been built against the slope of the promontory -- explaining its intermittent instability and the need for such substantial renovation. Historical records indicate massive expenditure in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Wooden piles representing the first phase of the Roman foundations are to be dendrochronologically dated.
Burnt mounds at Patching Junction
Christopher Place
9
Magnetometer/magnetic susceptibility surveys and machine dug trench investigation indicated a possible BA occupation site on the basis of features and associated pottery. Full rescue excavation confirmed the presence of the ditches, pits and post-holes suggested by the initial work, but also an extensive area of fire cracked flint and charcoal diagnosed as a burnt mound. The site in its entirety may represent an industrial processing area, with the crushed flint possibly representing pottery temper.
War and peace: English Heritage's Battlefield Register
Martin Brown
10
Brief details of the forthcoming register which will function in much the same way as the register of parks and gardens, that is, not affording statutory or other protection, rather recording location so that possible damage might be avoided.
Remember Malling Hill in 1973
Michael J Allen
13
A call for anyone involved with Richard Lewis's 1973 excavation of a probable Saxon execution pit site to come forward. Lewis's death in 1990, prior to publication of the site, necessitates the present author's involvement. There is a contact address for anyone with information.
Hunt the diamond tile
Ron G Martin
13
Records a nineteenth-century form of concrete roofing tile, originating in Germany. Examples found in Sussex and Devon are noted, as is an imported machine for their production at Peppers of Amberley. They should not be confused with later, cheaper, thinner asbestos/cement pre-war tiles of this shape. Further examples are sought.
The Seaford palstave saga
Helen Poole
14
Details the underwater discovery of a MBA-LBA axehead, in 1990, by a diver active at the western end of the Seven Sisters voluntary marine conservation area, and subsequent administrative procedural activity prior to its arrival at the Museum of Sussex Archaeology. No trace of a wreck was found in the surrounding area and it is thought that the palstave was lost on land prior to coastal erosion in this district.
A quality job
14
Analysis of Roman plaster and mortar reveals that they often deviated from standards laid down in construction manuals. Whilst the recommended six-layers of plaster was adhered to at Fishbourne, wider study reveals only three layers in many other RB buildings.
