Publications
Excavations on a medieval site at Little High Street, Worthing, West Sussex, 1997, by Julie Lovell, published 2001 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 139, article, pp.133-145) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14916] & The Keep [LIB/500292] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:A rare opportunity to undertake excavations within the town revealed two grain-dryers, pits and a sequence of boundary and enclosure ditches spanning possibly the 10th to early 15th centuries. These are likely to have lain behind buildings on the High Street frontage and reflect Worthing's development as a nucleated village settlement from c. 1200. The finds include a locally-important assemblage of medieval pottery.
An early Roman pottery production site at Horticultural Research International, Littlehampton, by Julie Lovell, published 2002 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 140, article, pp.21-40) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15109] & The Keep [LIB/500299] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:Investigation of an early Romano-British settlement at Worthing Road, Littlehampton revealed an enclosed working area, probably with beginnings in the Late Iron Age. Pottery was produced on the site for about 100 years between c. AD 43 and AD 150 using simple updraught kilns producing pottery comparable with that produced at Hardham and Wiggonholt and to vessels from Fishbourne and Chichester. Environmental evidence suggests that spelt wheat was processed in the vicinity of the site and the waste from this processing was used as kindling to fire the kilns.