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Excavation of a Celtic Village on the Ladies' Golf Course, the Dyke, Brighton, 1935, by G. P. Burstow, B.A. and A. E. Wilson, D.Litt., published 1936 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 77, article, pp.195-201) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2162] & The Keep [LIB/500352] & S.A.S. library

Early Romano-British Cremation near Woodingdean, Brighton, by G. P. Burstow, published May 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 6, note, pp.182-184) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

A Roman Bath, Highdown Hill, Sussex, by G. P. Burstow, B.A. and A. E. Wilson, D.Litt., published 1939 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 80, article, pp.63-88) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2165] & The Keep [LIB/500349] & S.A.S. library

Byzantine Coin Found at Iden, by G. P. Burstow, published February 1945 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. X no. 5, note, pp.118-119) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8228][Lib 2209] & The Keep [LIB/500212] & S.A.S. library

The Bostle, Woodingdean, by G. P. Burstow, published August 1945 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. X no. 7, note, pp.160-161) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8228][Lib 2209] & The Keep [LIB/500212] & S.A.S. library

Finds on Coombe Hill, Jevington, by G. P. Burstow, published August 1946 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 3, article, pp.54-56) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

A Roman Coin found on Coombe Hill, Jevington, by G. P. Burstow, published February 1947 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 5, note, pp.114-115) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

Human Remains found in Arundel Park, by G. P. Burstow, published August 1947 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 7, note, pp.156-157) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

Roman Coin from Chichester, by G. P. Burstow, published November 1947 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 8, note, p.175) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

Flint Scrapers from the Weald, by G. P. Burstow, published November 1947 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 8, note, p.175) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

The Evolution of Sussex Iron Age Pottery, by A. E. Wilson, F.S.A. and G. P. Burstow, F.S.A., published 1948 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 87, article, pp.77-111) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2172] & The Keep [LIB/500342] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Celtic Site on Highdole Hill, Telscombe, by G. P. Burstow, published February 1948 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XII no. 1, note, pp.19-20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8230] & The Keep [LIB/500214] & S.A.S. library

Romano-British Pottery from the East Brighton Golf Course, by G. P. Burstow, published August 1948 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XII no. 3, note, p.62) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8230] & The Keep [LIB/500214] & S.A.S. library

A Romano-British Site in Canada Bottom, Findon, near Cissbury, by N. E. S. Norris and G. P. Burstow, published February 1949 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XII no. 5, article, pp.103-104) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8230] & The Keep [LIB/500214] & S.A.S. library

An Iron Age and Romano-British Site on Slonk Hill, Shoreham, by N. E. S. Norris, G. P. Burstow, F.S.A. and F. H. Whitten, published May 1949 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XII no. 6 & 7, article, pp.150-154) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8230] & The Keep [LIB/500214] & S.A.S. library

A Prehistoric and Romano-British Site at West Blatchington, Hove, by Norman E. S. Norris and G. P. Burstow, published 1950 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 89, article, pp.1-56) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2174] & The Keep [LIB/500340] & S.A.S. library

Palaeolithic Implement from Newhaven, by G. P. Burstow, published May 1950 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII no. 2, note, p.41) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

Excavations of Barrows on the Bostle, Balsdean, by G. P. Burstow and N. E. S. Norris, published May 1951 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII no. 6, article, pp.129-131) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

A Late Bronze Age Settlement on Itford Hill: A short account of excavations there in 1949 and 50, by G. P. Burstow, F.S.A. and G. A. Holleyman, F.S.A., published November 1951 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII no. 8, article, pp.175-177) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

A Prehistoric and Romano-British Site at West Blatchington, Hove, by Norman E. S. Norris and G. P. Burstow, published 1952 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 90, article, pp.221-240) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2175] & The Keep [LIB/500339] & S.A.S. library

The Late Bronze Age Settlement on Itford Hill, by G. P. Burstow, published May 1955 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 5 & 6, note, pp.101-102) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Muntham Court, Findon: Interim Report, 1954-5, by G. P. Burstow, F.S.A. and G. A. Holleyman, F.S.A., published November 1956 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 11 & 12, article, pp.196-198) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at the Friary of St. Austin, Rye, by G. P. Burstow, published November 1956 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 11 & 12, article, pp.204-205) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

A History of Brighton College, by G. P. Burstow, M. B. Whittaker and edited by S. C. Roberts, published 1957 (150 pp., Brighton College) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Excavations at Muntham Court, Findon, by G. P. Burstow, F.S.A. and G. A. Holleyman, F.S.A., published May 1957 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 13 & 14, article, pp.232-233) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Late Bronze Age Settlement on Itford Hill, Sussex, by G. P. Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published January 1958 in The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (vol. 23, article, pp.167-212)   View Online

In the years between the two World Wars considerable research was done by Sussex archaeologists on the Late Bronze Age settlements of the South Downs (figs, 1 and 30). Several habitation sites were partly excavated, notably Park Brow near Worthing by Mr Garnet R. Wolseley in 1924, New Barn Down, Harrow Hill near Worthing by Dr E. Cecil Curwen in 1933, and Plumpton Plain, near Brighton, by Dr E. Cecil Curwen and Mr G. A. Holleyman in 1934, and an analysis of the pottery from these sites by Professor C. Hawkes has provided a typological and chronological basis for subsequent research.
After World War II the authors, inspired by the work of Dr J. F. S. Stone on the Deverel-Rimbury Settlement on Thorny Down and of Dr G. Bersu at Little Woodbury, decided to strip completely a small group of earthworks of probable Late Bronze Age date on Itford Hill near Lewes. In the spring of 1949 the site, together with the adjacent linear earthwork and group of lynchets, was surveyed by Mr E. W. Holden and Mr G. A. Holleyman. Excavations were carried out for each of five seasons (1949-1953) by means of volunteers and with the financial backing of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society.

A Late Bronze Age urnfield on Steyning Round Hill, Sussex, by G. P. Burstow, published December 1958 in The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (vol. 24, article, pp.158-164)   View Online

In the autumn of 1949 when ploughing was taking place on a south-eastern spur of Steyning Round Hill (Map Ref. 51/166099), fig. 1, two schoolboys D. Atkinson and M. J. Manetta found the remains of nine Late Bronze Age urns with cremated bones just under the surface of the plough soil. They lay in a circular area roughly 30 feet in diameter covered with large flints. Most of these urns were wisely left in situ until the Steyning Grammar School Archaeological Society under the direction of the Headmaster, Mr J. Scragg, and Mr W. Gardiner, assisted by Messrs N. E. S. Norris, G. Mason, and the writer, members of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society, undertook a methodical exploration. Our grateful thanks should be recorded to the farmer, Capt J. T. Mackley, who permitted the excavation and to all who helped in the work and dealt with the finds, as well as to Mr D. C. Tutt for kindly drawing the plan and pottery.

An Excavation on Cissbury in 1868, by G. P. Burstow, published May 1959 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 3, note, pp.98-99) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Plumpton Plain Site B, by G. P. Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published November 1959 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 4, note, p.129) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Ranscombe Camp, near Glynde, by G. P. Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published May 1960 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 5, article, pp.156-158) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Ranscombe Camp, near Glynde. Second and Final Season's Excavations, 1960, by G. P. Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published May 1961 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 7, article, pp.233-235) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Balcombe Quarry, Glynde: First Season's Report - August 1961, by G. P. Burstow ans N. E. S. Norris, published May 1962 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 9, article, pp.307-309) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233][Lib 2982] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Cricket in the Lewes Area from 1814 to 1818, by G. P. Burstow, published November 1962 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 10, article, pp.328-331) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233][Lib 2982] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Balcombe Quarry, Glynde, by G. P. Burstoe, G. A. Holleyman and N. E. S. Norris, published May 1963 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 1, article, pp.22-24) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Ranscombe Camp 1959-1960, by George Philip Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published 1964 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 102, article, pp.55-67) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2187] & The Keep [LIB/500327] & S.A.S. library

James Elphick, His Book, 1779, by G. P. Burstow, published May 1965 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 5, article, pp.158-160) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

A Burstow Family Pedigree, by G. P. Burstow, published November 1965 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 6, note, p.207) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Cricket in Sussex, by G. P. Burstow, published May 1967 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 9, note, pp.318-319) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Obituary: Dr. Eliot Cecil Curwen, by G. P. B. [G. P. Burstow] and G. A. H. [G. A. Holleywell], published November 1967 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 10, article, pp.357-358) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Archaeological report: Belle Tout, near Birling Gap, by G. P. Burstow, published December 1971 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 4, article, pp.2-3) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Archaeological report: The Hove Barrow, by G. P. Burstow, published December 1971 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 4, article, p.3) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Archaeological report: Itford Hill, by G. P. Burstow, published December 1971 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 4, article, p.3) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF