Publications
Arundel - The Making of the Town, by P. Barnwell and D. McOmish, published 2006 (English Heritage)
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.