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Romano-British Site on Wolstonbury Hill, by G. A. Holleyman, published 1935 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 76, article, pp.35-45) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2161] & The Keep [LIB/500353] & S.A.S. library

Late Bronze Age Lynchet-Settlements on Plumpton Plain, Sussex, by G. A. Holleyman and E. Cecil Curwen, published January 1935 in The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (vol. 1, article, pp.16-38)   View Online

Plumpton plain is situated on the top of the South Downs, roughly 600 feet above sea level, six miles north-east of Brighton and four miles north-west of Lewes (fig. 1). From its western end a broad spur slopes gently southwards from the northern escarpment of the Downs, lying between Moustone Valley on the south-east and Faulkners Bottom on the west. Most of this Downland is covered with a dense scrub of gorse, thorn and bramble, and with large patches of bracken and heather. A series of broad paths running roughly at right angles with one another has been cut through this vegetation to facilitate the preservation of game. Along the main ridge of the spur running north and south is a broad gallop which, at a height of 600 feet O.D., passes through a group of earthworks situated 1500 feet from the north edge of the Downs and 2300 feet east of Streathill Farm. This group was the primary object of bur investigations and will be referred to as Site A (fig. 2).
Site B (fig. 3) lies a quarter of a mile to the south-east of Site A on a small lateral spur jutting between the twin heads of Moustone Bottom. The only visible evidence of prehistoric occupation was a quantity of coarse gritty sherds and calcined flints on the surface to the south-east of a low bank and ditch which runs across the spur.
Several groups of lynchets enclosing square Celtic fields are to be seen in the neighbourhood of these two sites. They lie principally to the south-east of Site A and to the south of Site B.

An Early British Agricultural Village Site on Highdole Hill, near Telscombe, by G. A. Holleyman, published 1936 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 77, article, pp.202-222) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2162] & The Keep [LIB/500352] & S.A.S. library

Harrow Hill Excavations, 1936, by G. A. Holleyman, published 1937 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 78, article, pp.230-252) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2163] & The Keep [LIB/500351] & S.A.S. library

Brighton Loops and Flint Implements from Falmer Hill, by G. A. Holleyman, published August 1948 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XII no. 3, note, pp.60-61) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8230] & The Keep [LIB/500214] & S.A.S. library

A Late Bronze Age Settlement on Itford Hill: A short account of excavations there in 1949 and 50, by G. P. Burstow, F.S.A. and G. A. Holleyman, F.S.A., published November 1951 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII no. 8, article, pp.175-177) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Muntham Court, Findon: Interim Report, 1954-5, by G. P. Burstow, F.S.A. and G. A. Holleyman, F.S.A., published November 1956 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 11 & 12, article, pp.196-198) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Muntham Court, Findon, by G. P. Burstow, F.S.A. and G. A. Holleyman, F.S.A., published May 1957 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 13 & 14, article, pp.232-233) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Late Bronze Age Settlement on Itford Hill, Sussex, by G. P. Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published January 1958 in The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (vol. 23, article, pp.167-212)   View Online

In the years between the two World Wars considerable research was done by Sussex archaeologists on the Late Bronze Age settlements of the South Downs (figs, 1 and 30). Several habitation sites were partly excavated, notably Park Brow near Worthing by Mr Garnet R. Wolseley in 1924, New Barn Down, Harrow Hill near Worthing by Dr E. Cecil Curwen in 1933, and Plumpton Plain, near Brighton, by Dr E. Cecil Curwen and Mr G. A. Holleyman in 1934, and an analysis of the pottery from these sites by Professor C. Hawkes has provided a typological and chronological basis for subsequent research.
After World War II the authors, inspired by the work of Dr J. F. S. Stone on the Deverel-Rimbury Settlement on Thorny Down and of Dr G. Bersu at Little Woodbury, decided to strip completely a small group of earthworks of probable Late Bronze Age date on Itford Hill near Lewes. In the spring of 1949 the site, together with the adjacent linear earthwork and group of lynchets, was surveyed by Mr E. W. Holden and Mr G. A. Holleyman. Excavations were carried out for each of five seasons (1949-1953) by means of volunteers and with the financial backing of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society.

Excavations at Plumpton Plain Site B, by G. P. Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published November 1959 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 4, note, p.129) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Excavations in the Ditchling Road area north of Brighton, 1950-1957, by George A. Holleyman and C. W. Yeates, published 1960 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 98, article, pp.133-149) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2183] & The Keep [LIB/500331] & S.A.S. library

Ranscombe Camp, near Glynde, by G. P. Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published May 1960 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 5, article, pp.156-158) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Ranscombe Camp, near Glynde. Second and Final Season's Excavations, 1960, by G. P. Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published May 1961 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 7, article, pp.233-235) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Balcombe Quarry, Glynde, by G. P. Burstoe, G. A. Holleyman and N. E. S. Norris, published May 1963 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 1, article, pp.22-24) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Ranscombe Camp 1959-1960, by George Philip Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published 1964 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 102, article, pp.55-67) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2187] & The Keep [LIB/500327] & S.A.S. library

Obituary: Dr. Eliot Cecil Curwen, by G. P. B. [G. P. Burstow] and G. A. H. [G. A. Holleyman], published November 1967 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 10, article, pp.357-358) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Catalogue of books from the library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: taken from Monks House, Rodmell, Sussex and 24 Victoria Square, London, and now in the possession of Washington State University, Pullman, U.S.A., by George A. Holleyman, published 1 October 1975 (386 pp., Holleyman and Treacher Ltd., ISBN-10: 0950450103 & ISBN-13: 9780950450100) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Obituary: Arthur Ernest Wilson, 1891-1976, by George A. Holleyman, published 1976 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 114, obituary) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6476] & The Keep [LIB/500315] & S.A.S. library

Obituary: George Philip Burstow, 1910-1975, by George A. Holleyman, published 1976 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 114, obituary) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6476] & The Keep [LIB/500315] & S.A.S. library

Two Dorset archaeologists in Sussex : Lieut. General Pitt-Rivers in Sussex 1867-1878 and Herbert Samuel Toms, Curator of the Brighton Museum 1896-1939, by G. A. Holleyman and Ralph Merrifield, published 1987 (Henfield: The Author)