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Evaluation and excavation at Claypit Lane, Westhampnett in advance of gravel extraction and construction revealed slight evidence for Mesolithic activity, an Early Neolithic pit and Late Neolithic pits, one of which included the remains of apples and sloes. As well as an Early Bronze Age cremation burial, three Middle Bronze Age ring-ditches and six associated burials were found. A Middle to Late Bronze Age settlement, one of the first found on the West Sussex coastal plain, contained several placed deposits and a pottery assemblage. Two Anglo-Saxon sunken featured buildings also add to the growing evidence for that period on the coastal plain. Includes separately authored contributions on

Final report documenting the results of the excavations between 1995 and 2002 by the Sussex Archaeological Society in front of the Roman palace at Fishbourne, near Chichester. The report deals with Area C, excavated in 2002, and concentrates on the post-AD 43 features and finds, of which the structural highlights are the partial remains of two further buildings, one constructed in timber, the other with flint foundations. These two buildings, together with the two revealed previously, suggest that in this area there was a complicated series of developments pre- and post-palace. An extensive digital archive to the report is available on the Archaeology Data Service website. Includes specialist reports on

Following on recent studies of the tower and spire of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Bosham, the study reassesses the whole of the architectural history of the church using both documentary and archaeological evidence. For the latter, the changing use of the building stone types has been particularly useful. Includes

Excavations at East Bank, River Road, Littlehampton revealed a series of alluvial deposits, a late-eighteenth-century chalk well, and a large early-nineteenth-century wharf building, which fronted onto a dock to its west. In the late-nineteenth century the dock was infilled and alterations were made to the wharf building. A coal shed was added to the rear and another structure was erected to the north to front River Road. A series of tiebacks retaining a river defence wall dating to the late-nineteenth or early-twentieth century was also recorded. The paper integrates the findings of the archaeological excavations with cartographic and documentary sources in order to trace the process of wharf building and the subsequent development of the east bank of the River Arun in Littlehampton during the later post-medieval period.