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Updating the Sussex Iron Age, by Sue Hamilton and Kate Gregory, published 2000 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 138, article, pp.57-74) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14509] & The Keep [LIB/500298] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:This article reviews the progress made in Sussex 'Iron Age' studies using a comparison of the data available in the 1930s with those available in the 1990s. In the 1930s Sussex was pre-eminent in the research of the period, through the fieldwork of the Curwens and others, and the pottery studies of Hawkes. By the end of the century things were very different. Present-day fieldwork and publication take place in changed contexts, and our research questions are wholly different. The old evidence has to be reused. This article provides a guide to this transformation. The present importance of the Sussex 1st-millennium BC data set is in its regionalism, both within the county, and in its divergence from the wider 'Iron Age' traditions of southern Britain as a whole.