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Excavations at Chanctonbury Ring, Wiston, West Sussex 1977, by Owen Bedwin, David Rudling, Sue Hamilton, Peter Drewett and Karen Petzoldt, published November 1980 in Britannia (vol. 11, article, pp.173-222)   View Online

Chanctonbury Ring (NGR TQ 139 121) is one of the best known landmarks in Sussex. It consists of a clump of trees, mostly beech, but with occasional sycamore, situated on the very northern edge of the South Downs, about 8 km (5 miles) from the coast (FIG. I). The height above sea-level is 234 m (780 ft.), and the subsoil is Upper Chalk, though several local patches of Clay-with-flints were encountered during the excavation.

Earlier First Millennium Pottery from the Excavations at Hollingbury Camp, Sussex, 1967-1969, by Sue Hamilton, published 1984 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 122, article, pp.55-62) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9140] & The Keep [LIB/500309] & S.A.S. library

Knapp Farm, Bosham. a significant Find of Bronze Age Pottery, by Mark Gardiner and Sue Hamilton, published 1997 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 135, article, pp.71-92) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13642] & The Keep [LIB/500290] & S.A.S. library

Using elderly data bases. Iron Age Pit Deposits at the Caburn, East Sussex, and Related Sites, by Sue Hamilton, published 1998 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 136, article, pp.23-40) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13921] & The Keep [LIB/500297] & S.A.S. library

Marking time and making space: excavations and landscape studies at the Caburn Hillfort, East Sussex, 1996-98, by Peter L. Drewett and Sue Hamilton, published 1999 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 137, article, pp.7-18) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14439] & The Keep [LIB/500291] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Caburn dominates the lower Ouse valley in East Sussex. Its use and significance have waxed and waned but its unique dome shape against the skyline must have helped define peoples' sense of place throughout time. This article, based on the first three field seasons of the Society's project, examines the surfaces of the hill, the use of space on the hill and through time. In prehistory the Caburn may have been a special place, perhaps a sacred hill, while in post-Roman times its strategic location was utilized in times of threat.

Regional Traditions c.1000-100BC, by Sue Hamilton and John Manley, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.20-21, 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

The End of Prehistory c.100BC-AD43, by Sue Hamilton and John Manley, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.22-23, 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

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

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.

Vegetation history of the English chalklands: a mid-Holocene pollen sequence from the Caburn, East Sussex, by Martyn P. Waller and Sue Hamilton, published March 2000 in Journal of Quaternary Science (vol. 15, issue 3, article, pp.253-272)   View Online

A pollen diagram has been produced from the base of the Caburn (East Sussex) that provides a temporally and spatially precise record of vegetation change on the English chalklands during the mid-Holocene (ca. 7100 to ca. 3800 cal. yr BP). During this period the slopes above the site appear to have been well-wooded, with vegetation analogous to modern Fraxinus-Acer-Mercurialis communities in which Tilia was also a prominent constituent. However, scrub and grassland taxa such as Juniperus communis, Cornus sanguinea and Plantago lanceolata are also regularly recorded along with, from ca. 6000 cal. yr BP onwards, species specific to Chalk grassland (e.g. Sanguisorba minor). This supports suggestions that elements of Chalk grassland persisted in lowland England through the Holocene. Such communities are most likely to have occupied the steepest slopes, although the processes that maintained them are unclear. Human interference with vegetation close to the site may have begun as early as ca. 6350 cal. yr BP and initially involved a woodland management practice such as coppicing. From the primary Ulmus decline (ca. 5700 cal. yr BP) onwards, phases of limited clearance accompanied by cereal cultivation occurred. Taxus baccata was an important component of the woodland which regenerated between these phases.