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Excavations in the immediate vicinity of Fairlight Coasrguard Station revealed a lower stratum containing Mesolithic flintwork of Earlier Mesolithic type. In the upper levels, flintwork of Later Mesolithic type succeeded and was in part contemporart with another flint industry in the earlier tradition. The site was later visited by Neolithic groups and finally a small Iron Age settlement was established.

Two areas were excavated at Harting Beacon in 1977. First, the western entrance was re-excavated; it had previously been investigated, but no adequate report has been forthcoming. A pair of large entrance post holes was found, and the two ditch terminals excavated. The second area (30 x 15m) was inside the hill fort, adjacent to an area examined in 1976; only one pot and a post hole were found.

William Bullaker is important as the author of the first English grammar, and as a tireless advocate of spelling reform in a number of works written in his own phonetic system at the end of the sixteenth century. His literary input has been much studied recently, notably by the School of English at the University of Leeds in the 1960s. This paper is an attempt at writing a biography of Bullaker based on the evidence of his own writings and surviving documentary material. Four main sources have been used. The evidence in the Petworth inclosure dispute proves for the first time that Bullaker received his education in Petworth, and identifies the source of his spelling and pronunciation. The election dispute in Chichester in 1586 shows Bullaker as one of the leaders of the radical group in the city prepared to oppose the Mayor and Corporation. Bullaker's poems and introductions to his own works give information about his military service, his study of civil law and his educational interests, as well as giving glimpses of his personal delight in nature. Finally, the harassment that he and his family received on account of their persistent catholic recusancy, enables a fairly detailed account of the whereabouts and movements of the Bullaker family to be constructed from the papers of the ecclesiastical courts in Chichester.

Ancient Monuments in Sussex; Sussex Barrows; the Old Clergy House, Alfriston, 1976; Stoughton Ring ditches; Earthworks at Halnaker Hill; Flint Artifacts from Seaford; Bronze Age Loom Wight from Cross-in-Hand; Roman Pewter Plate from Glynde; Prehistoric Finds from Possingworth Park, Framfield; Note on the Mammal Remains in Medieval Pits and Well at Seaford, church Street; Excavations in Steyne Road, Seaford, 1977; Excavations at South Street, West Tarring, 1978; Medieval finds from Denton (1 and 2); An Excavation at Selmeston, East Sussex, 1978; Mesolithic and later finds at Selmeston and Berwick; An Early Bronze Age collared urn from Hangleton, West Sussex; Marehurst Wood water-pipe trench; Wephurst Glassworks; Durford Abbey; Two unusual ditched enclosures in West Sussex; A possible Neolithic oval barrow on Nore Down, West Marden; An Iron Age gold coin from Pulborough; Sixteenth century house foundations at West Heath, Harting; Roman villa at Hooksway, Treyford; A probable Iron Age farmstead site at Lordington, Stoughton; Bronze Age pottery from Cross Lane, Findon, West Sussex; Early Iron Age Pottery from Littlehampton; A barbed bronze spearhead from the Rother; Results of aerial reconnaissance in West Sussex; Iron Age and Romano-British settlement at Eridge Park; a La Tène Brooch from Bognor Regis; Some recent finds of Iron Age pottery on the West Sussex coastal plain; An Edward III Quarter Noble from Pett, East Sussex; A chalk cut shaft at Belle Tout, East Dean; Neolithic axe from South Heighton; Roman bronze fitting from South Heighton; A Medieval roof tile with impression of fabric, from Parrock Hartfield; Buxted medieval village site; Sutton Rectory; the dates of John Burton’s journeys through Surrey and Sussex; On the alleged Frankish origin of the Hastings tribe; Belle Tout.