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Recent Finds at Arundel, by J. Fowler, published February 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 5, note, p.147) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Area of Broken and Burnt Flints [at Walberton], by J. Fowler, published August 1928 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. II no. 3, reply, p.97) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8951] & The Keep [LIB/500204] & S.A.S. library

Description of the high Stream of Arundel, The Heads and Rising Thereof, The Sundry Kinds of Fishes Therein in their several Haunts, The Fishermen, Their Care & Service in Preserving Fish, etc , by William Barttelot and Joseph Fowler, M.A., published 1929 (Nature and Archaeology Circle, Littlehampton Extra Publications) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

This is one of those books, unfortunately only to rare, in which one of the men of old has set down, not only his traditions and inferences about the past, but also much about what was the present to him. It will be indispensable to future workers on the topography of the Arun Valley; and part, at least, will appeal to those who, whether they are interested in archaeology or no, find pleasure in the writings of men like Gilbert White. We may regret that this seventeenth century Water Bailiff, who wrote a description of his duties and the scene of them for the guidance of his successors, has not recorded his own name; but, nameless as he is, he is a more living figure to us than most of the country squires he mentions can ever be. If his archaeology, and particularly his etymology, are not up to modern standards, we have Mr. Fowler's very adequate notes to correct them ; if we seek more information, about the contemporaries he talks of, we find his passing references amplified by a quantity of genealogical notes supplied by Mr. John Comber; if he has once been guilty of a piece of " fine writing " which resembles bad blank verse, it serves to remind us that he was human. The get-up of the book deserves a word of praise. Paper and typography are excellent, and the indispensable map combines something of the picturesqueness of the seventeenth century with the accuracy of the twentieth. Both Mr. Fowler and the Nature and Archaeology Circle are to be congratulated on this fresh source-book of our local topography.

Palaeoliths found at Slindon, by J. Fowler, published 1929 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 70, notes & queries, pp.197-200) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2155] & The Keep [LIB/500359] & S.A.S. library

The Boulonnais: The French End of Sussex, by J. Fowler, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 4, article, pp.222-230) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500139]

"The High Stream of Arundel", by Joseph Fowler, M.A., published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 5, article, pp.391-392) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500172]

Dallaway Inscription , by J. Fowler, published February 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 1, note, p.23) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Neolithic Mace Head [at Walberton], by J. Fowler, published May 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 2, note, p.56) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Paleolith from West Sussex [at Chithurst], by J. Fowler, published February 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 5, note, pp.158-159) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

The ?One Hundred Foot' raised beach between Arundel and Chichester, Sussex, by Joseph Fowler, published January 1932 in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. 88, issue 1-4, article, pp.84-99)   View Online

Prestwich, as long ago as 1859, described the raised beach between Arundel and Chichester under the title of 'The Westward extension of the old Raised Beach of Brighton'. Clement Reid, referring to the same deposits, writes, 'The work of the survey having thoroughly corroborated Prof. Prestwich?s view that these deposits all belong to one period, [the italics are my own] there will be no occasion here to discuss the question' (Reid, 1892, p. 346). As a result of the general acceptance of this view of the continuity between the Brighton and Chichester deposits, it has been inferred that the underlying solid formations were not elevated horizontally, but with a considerable eastward lag; for the beach at the Brighton end is only some 15 feet above sea-level, while that at the Chichester end is 115 feet higher, though the distance between the two places is less than 30 miles. I do not know, however, of any indication of such differential movement, and it is far more likely that there are two distinct raised beaches here in Sussex, the one at about 15 feet, and the other at about 100 feet above existing sea-level.