Publications
New Mesolithic for the Weald? Recent investigations at Chiddingly Wood Rocks, by Mike Allen, Andrew Maxted and Richard Carter, published August 2008 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 115, article, pp.4-5, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library View Online
Preview:Mesolithic activity in southern England and Sussex typically includes 'open air' sites such as Iping, Selmeston and Rock Common, and rock shelter sites such as High Rocks or The Hermitage. Rock shelters often produce evidence of restricted activity that may be seasonal, with archaeological investigation usually limited to stratified deposits within the shelters or at their mouths. These sites do, however, potentially contain in situ artefact assemblages and good, stratified palaeoenvironmental data, while open-air sites and flint scatters may contain relatively large artefact and charred assemblages displaying patterning and spatial array, but often with little good palaeo-environmental and geoarchaeological context (e.g. Horsham, Halt, Streat, Iping). Rapid geoarchaeological research at a site at Chiddingly Wood Rocks, West Hoathly in the High Weald, West Sussex has demonstrated the presence of Mesolithic activity in topographical locations not previously expected.