Publications
Order out of Chaos: Managing the Fishbourne Collections, by Rob Symmons and Gordon Hayden, published December 2008 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 116, article, p.7, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library View Online
Dialogues in deposition: A reassessment of early Roman-period burials at St Pancras, Chichester, and other related sites, by Gordon Hayden, published 2011 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 149, article, pp.35-48) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18614] & The Keep [LIB/500367] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:This article focuses on the social dynamics underpinning change and continuity during the Iron Age-Roman transition period in the area of Chichester and its immediate hinterland. Although the primary data is derived from a reassessment of selected burial groupings from the St Pancras cemetery, data from other sites has been used to put St Pancras into a wider context. Though it is generally accepted that the arrival of Roman power and the establishment of a post-Conquest client kingdom in this area influenced cultural change, the reassessed data suggests that external influences more probably merged with local traditions. As individual and social group identity is partly expressed through manipulating material culture, this article examines the social dynamics of those further down the social scale, by re-evaluating specific 1st-century AD indigenous pottery types and their significance as indicators of change and continuity. It places indigenous pottery in a wider context by examining the nature of sub-regional social preferences and the relationship between the Chichester area and the peripheral environment. The results suggest there was an initial degree of resistance to change amongst certain social groups, whilst others were in constant dialogue and renegotiation over what types of material culture could be perceived as culturally acceptable. This indicates the active role of the existing population in fashioning their own particular lifestyles.
Survey and excavation at Goblestubbs Copse, Arundel, West Sussex, by David McOmish and Gordon Hayden, published 2015 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 153, article, pp.1-28) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18934] & The Keep [LIB/509033] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:This report outlines the results of a programme of fieldwork undertaken by English Heritage in collaboration with the Worthing Archaeological Society. It focused on an area of woodland, some of it dense and unmanaged, to the west of the town of Arundel. Here, investigation centred on a cluster of enclosures at Goblestubbs Copse, and included detailed earthwork survey followed by a limited amount of excavation. The results are unequivocal: the enclosures date to the early decades of the 1st millennium AD and were likely still to have been in use at the time of the Claudian Conquest, and for a time thereafter too. The Goblestubbs complex may well be only one of a number of other contemporary foci in this particular area, suggesting that it was an important nexus of activity, complementary to developments further to the west in and around Chichester.
Goblestubbs Copse Enclosure: The 2016 excavation finally confirms the site phasing, by Gordon Hayden, published April 2017 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 141, article, p.12, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507923] & S.A.S. library