Sussex Archaeological Collections 146

Summarises current knowledge of Sussex Bronze and Early Iron Age pottery traditions, and discusses the research issues surrounding them. Incorporates data from several unpublished assemblages. (PP-B)

Report on excavations in the centre of Chichester. The principal phase of the Roman occupation dated from the second half of the first century AD, with later material (mostly residual) suggesting continued occupation on or near the site. The early occupation was relatively sparse, and appeared to be away from any street frontage. Late-Saxon to early medieval pits show a renewal of activity in the tenth-twelfth centuries, probably at the rear of properties fronting a newly laid-out street. Later medieval cesspits and refuse pits occurred over the rest of the site, with indications of a gradual westwards shift in focus towards East Pallant. Associated food and artefactual remains were considered to be typical of urban medieval assemblages, with the exception of an ornate thirteenth-century ceramic roof finial. A single structure was excavated on the site; a fourteenth- to early-fifteenth-century vaulted undercroft, part of a building fronting on to North Pallant.

Report on archaeological evaluation and subsequent excavation, which revealed medieval and post-medieval features including pits, ditches, a well, and two ironworking hearths. The well produced a large assemblage of artefacts and environmental evidence including a group of insect remains. A large quantity of slag was recovered as well as prehistoric flint from the overburden. The majority of the features dated from the mid-thirteenth to the late-fourteenth centuries. (PP-B)

Examines the documentary sources, including property deeds, manorial records, will and probate inventories, for the pottery, brick and tile-making industries in the Graffham area, with the aim of enabling archaeological work on these industries to be placed in a stronger historic context.