Massey, R. (2016). Community Excavation at Whiteways Plantation, Arundel, West Sussex . Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1042219. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Community Excavation at Whiteways Plantation, Arundel, West Sussex
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 The earliest feature identified on site was a 1.9m-wide, north/southaligned, surfaced trackway, which was provisionally dated to the early Iron Age or Later Bronze Age. This was overlain by a chalkysilt layer which appears to have been deposited after the trackway went out of use. This was overlain in turn by an early ploughsoil, which was truncated on the west side by a later negative lynchet. The ploughsoil was undated, but clearly pre-dated the construction of the enclosure bank, and may therefore have been of Early- Middle Iron Age date. Directly above this was constructed the chalk enclosure bank of a possibly Middle or Late Iron Age univallate enclosure, which was located immediately to the south of the War Dyke. The bank was constructed of three distinct layers of chalky make-up, of which the bulk comprised flint-free chalk rubble excavated from the ditch to the west. A construction cut just the west of the surviving extent of the bank had been cut through a natural subsoil, and contained two, irregularly-laid courses of nodular flints, which may represent an outer facing or revetment. A ditch ran c. 2.75 west of the flint foundation and parallel to the bank. This contained weathering fills which were cut but a U-profile re-cut containing a single, jumbled fill. This contained a number of flints which may have fallen from the decayed bank revetment, and may result from a single episode of backfilling not long after the recut was made. The remains of the bank, ditch and wall were overlain by sequence of later cultivated soils, and the western face of the bank had been partly cut away by a negative field lynchet. These indicate a phase of cultivation across the site at some time after the final abandonment of the enclosure, possibly during the medieval and or post-medieval periods. The trench was sealed by a layer of decayed leaf little to a depth of 0.11m, which represents a relatively recent phase of woodland establishment.
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Author:		 Richard Massey
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2016
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Site: Whiteways Plantation, Houghton, Arundel, West Sussex
District: Arun
County: West Sussex
Parish: HOUGHTON
Country: England
Grid Reference: 500076, 110234 (Easting, Northing)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-281775
OBIB: 16336
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Created Date:		 18 Aug 2017