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Archaeological Assessment of Land to the North and West of Steyning Library, Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex , by Chris Greatorex and Mark Gardiner, published 1994 accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Archaeological Excavation at Steyning Library, Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex, by Christopher Greatorex, published 1995 (South Eastern Archaeological Services) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Late Bronze Age waterlogged remains at Willingdon Levels, Sussex, by C. Greatorex, published 1997 in Archaeology International (vol. 1, article, pp.14-15)   View Online

Remains of a timber platform and trackway were discovered in 1995 at the edge of the Pevensey Marshes in Southeast England. The platform is the first of its type to be found in the region, and the objects excavated include an exceptionally well preserved metal hook still attached to its wooden handle, which has been radiocarbon dated to the ninth century BC.

Archaeological excavations in Steyning, 1992-1995. Further Evidence for the Evolution of a Late Saxon Small Town, by Mark Gardiner and Chris Greatorex, published 1997 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 135, article, pp.143-172) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13642] & The Keep [LIB/500290] & S.A.S. library

The Shinewater track: an excavation of a Late Bronze Age waterlogged structure on the WillingdonLevels, near Eastbourne, East Sussex : (NGR TQ 614 029), by Christopher Greatorex, published 1998 (60 leaves, Archaeology South-East, Hassocks) accessible at: British Library

Emerging Hierarchies and the Rise of the Individual, by Chistopher Greatorex, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.18-19, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Rock shelter stratigraphy: Excavations at Eridge, by Christopher Greatorex and Mike Seager Thomas, published 2000 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 138, article, pp.49-56) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14509] & The Keep [LIB/500298] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Excavation of two rock shelters at Eridge during 1999 yielded close to 500 struck flints of Mesolithic date and evidence of possible Late Iron Age/Early Romano-British iron-smelting. Although disturbed by animal activity, the relationship of the finds to each other and to the sediments in which they were found indicated the existence of former land surfaces and activity areas. Buried positive features, including two hearths and a pour of tap-slag, were also identified.

The environmental archaeology of the Late Bronze Age occupation platform at Shinewater, near Eastbourne, UK, by S. Jennings, C. Greatorex, C. Smyth, G. Spurr, A. J. Howard, M. G. Macklin and D. G. Passmore, published December 2000 in The Alluvial archaeology of North-West Europe and the Mediterranean (article, pp.93-110) accessible at: British Library

Evidence of Sussex prehistoric ritual traditions: the archaeological investigation of a Bronze Age funerary monument situated on Baily's Hill near Crowlink, Eastbourne, by Christopher Greatorex, published 2001 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 139, article, pp.27-73) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14916] & The Keep [LIB/500292] & S.A.S. library   View Online

During the summer of 1998, a prehistoric monument located on Baily's Hill, near Crowlink, East Sussex, was totally excavated in advance of its impending destruction through coastal erosion. The investigation undertaken by the University College London Field Archaeology Unit established that a number of cremation pits cut into an area of natural chalk demarcated by a shallow, possibly encircling ditch, represented a formative phase of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age burial at the site. No evidence for an in-situ 'barrow' or capping contemporaneous with such activity was discovered. However, all the recorded burials, including the partial remains of an adult male inhumation, were covered with an oval-shaped cairn encompassing a typical later Bronze Age assemblage of over 15,000 humanly-struck flints. The proposed date of this upstanding structure was supported by the associated presence of Late Bronze Age pottery. Yet Neolithic, Beaker and Early Bronze Age sherds were also recovered from the body of the mound. It would thus appear that residual material derived from previous activity on the downland ridge had been scraped up and incorporated into the cairn matrix. Clearly, the Crowlink monument had retained, or at least recaptured, a position of ritual significance within the local landscape many years after its period of initial use.

Archaeological Watching Brief at Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield, West Sussex (NGR TQ 3035 2450) , by Christopher Greatorex, published 2003 (South Eastern Archaeological Services) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Archaeological Watching Brief at St. Mary's Church, Slaugham, West Sussex (NGR TQ 2570 2810), by Christopher Greatorex, published 2004 (C. G. Arcgaeology) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

An archaeological excavation at Steyning Museum, Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex, by Christopher Greatorex, published 2008 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 146, article, pp.95-106) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15997] & The Keep [LIB/500364] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Seventeen medieval features were recorded during an excavation undertaken at Steyning Museum, Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex. These discoveries included part of a tenement boundary, pits and three possible post-holes dating to the twelfth to early/mid-thirteenth century. A single shallow scoop of mid-thirteenth- to mid-fourteenth-century origin was also investigated. The range of recovered artefacts/ecofacts (pottery, burnt clay, metalwork, animal bone and marine shell) is indicative of general waste derived from a relatively low-status family group or smallholding utilizing mainly local resources. This project has contributed to the detailed understanding of Steyning's early development and confirmed the archaeological potential of the immediate area.

Excavations on St Anne's Hill: A Middle/Late Iron Age Site and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at St Anne's Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex , by Anna Doherty and Christopher Greatorex, published 2 May 2016 (240 pp., SpoilHeap Publications, ISBN-10: 0957650981 & ISBN-13: 9780957650985)