Sussex Archaeological Collections 138

States and evaluates the importance of line drawing in the recording of archaeological sites and reassesses Gurd's contribution to the archaeology of Sussex.

Reports that a concentration of Middle--Late Mesolithic flintwork was recorded by excavation. Over 50,000 pieces of worked flint were discovered, including Horsham microliths and microburins. There were some residual finds of Late Glacial artefacts. The artefact distribution is interpreted as suggesting that re-tooling and repairing of hunting equipment was undertaken around a series of hearths, represented by burnt flint. Some Neolithic flintwork was also recovered. Includes a specialist report on:

Reviews the history of the study of the Iron Age of the county between the 1930s and 1990s. Notes changes in practice and terminology.

Aims to elucidate how surveyors and architects laid out the ground-plan of a building at Fishbourne. Suggests that the units of measurement that were used might have been drawn from the metaphor of the human body.

Fieldwork revealed evidence of sporadic occupation dating from the medieval period to the present. Although prehistoric flintwork was recovered, the earliest excavated feature was a ditch of probable early medieval date which suggests attempts to drain the open marshland of the estuarine floodplain of the River Adur. Subsequently, washed salts and sands deriving from medieval salt manufacture were deposited, forming a saltern mound used intermittently from the thirteenth into the sixteenth century. The mound showed evidence of sporadic flooding until the mid-sixteenth-century. A saw pit was in operation by the early-nineteenth century, possibly in connection with a wharf known from documentary sources.

Largely historical. Describes the enclosure, which functioned as a deer park and also as the main common land for the parishes of Ringmer, Glynde and South Malling. The enclosure was established by a private Act of Parliament in 1767.

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