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Excavations in Friars Walk, Lewes 1989, by Miles Russell, published 1990 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 128, article, pp.141-156) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11106] & The Keep [LIB/500301] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Whitehawk Neolithic enclosure, Brighton, East Sussex, 1991-1993, by Miles Russell and David Rudling, published 1996 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 134, article, pp.39-62) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13390] & The Keep [LIB/500296] & S.A.S. library

Problems of Phasing: A reconsideration of the Black Patch Middle Bronze Age 'Nucleated Village', by Miles Russell, published March 1996 in Oxford Journal of Archaeology (vol. 15, issue 1, article, pp.33-38)   View Online

The Middle Bronze Age settlement complex of Black Patch, East Sussex, originally considered to represent the remains of a single phase 'nucleated village', is here reconsidered as representing the remains of two chronologically distinct settlement units. The dangers inherent in overlooking sequence and assuming contemporaneity for all archaeological features revealed within the course of a single excavation, are outlined.

Of Flint Mines and Fossil Men: The Lavant Caves Deception, by Miles Russell, published February 2000 in Oxford Journal of Archaeology (vol. 19, issue 1, article, pp.105-108)   View Online

A series of subterranean passages first recorded in the late nineteenth century at Lavant, near Chichester have generally been interpreted as the remains of a Neolithic flint mine, one of many such sites recorded from the South Downs. Unfortunately it would appear that the site is a fraud. Not just any fraud, however, for it is likely that it represents just one in a series of increasingly complex and elaborate hoaxes staged by the very same individual responsible for the creation, identificatiom and discovery of 'Piltdown Man'.

Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain, by Miles Russell, published 26 May 2000 (160 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 075241481X & ISBN-13: 9780752414812) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Rough Quarries Rocks and Hills: John Pull and the Neolithic Flint Mines of Sussex, by Miles Russell, published 2001 in Bournemouth University, School of Applied Sciences Occasional Paper 6, Oxbow Books, Oxford (article)

Prehistoric Sussex, by Miles Russell, published 2002 (176 pp., Tempus Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 0752419641 & ISBN-13: 9780752419640) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14783] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson, by Miles Russell, published 1 December 2003 (272 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 0752425722 & ISBN-13: 9780752425726) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The human and animal remains discovered at Piltdown, near Lewes in Sussex almost 100 years ago were at the time hailed as the 'missing link' between ape and man. It was not until 1953 that modern analysis conclusively revealed an ingenious hoax. The perpetrator was almost certainly the antiquarian excavator Charles Dawson who, as Miles Russell shows, was responsible for sixteen other archaeological forgeries during his lifetime.

Roman Sussex, by Miles Russell, published 10 April 2006 (176 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 0752436015 & ISBN-13: 9780752436012) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Starting with the first named resident of the county, Tiberius Claudius Togidubnus, Great King of Britain (with his palace at Fishbourne) and friend of the Roman emperor Claudius, this book reassesses the story of the Roman invasion of Britain and looks in detail at the earliest examples of Roman culture in Britain.

The Piltdown Man Hoax: Case Closed, by Miles Russell, published 10 December 2012 (160 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 0752487744 & ISBN-13: 9780752487748) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Piltdown. Even today the name sends a shiver down the collective spine of the scientific community, for this was the most dramatic and daring fraud ever perpetrated upon the world of science and academia. Between 1908 and 1912, a series of amazing discoveries relating to what appeared to be the earliest human were made close to the little village of Piltdown in Sussex. These remains belonged to the developmental 'missing link' between man and ape. The basic principles of evolution, first propounded by Charles Darwin some fifty years before, now appeared as indisputable fact. The Manchester Guardian ran the first headline: 'THE EARLIEST MAN?: REMARKABLE DISCOVERY IN SUSSEX. A SKULL MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD' it screamed, adding that the discovery was 'one of the most important of our time'. The news spread quickly around the world, with many voicing their eagerness to examine the find. Few archaeological discoveries have the capacity to be front-page news twice over, but 'Piltdown Man' is a rare exception. Forty-one years after he first became famous, the 'Earliest Englishman' was again hot news. It was late November 1953, and the world was about to discover that Piltdown Man had been a hoax. Not just any hoax mind, the London Star declared it to be 'THE BIGGEST SCIENTIFIC HOAX OF THE CENTURY'.

A near life-size, Togate bust from Chichester, West Sussex, by Miles Russell, published November 2013 in Britannia (vol. 44, article, pp.264-270)   View Online

Romano-British bust of a bearded man, now at Princeton. Excavated in the garden of Wycombe House about 1900.

Bignor Roman Villa, by David Rudling and Miles Russell, published 4 May 2015 (160 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 0750961554 & ISBN-13: 9780750961554) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Discovered in 1811, Bignor is one of the richest and most impressive villas in Britain, its mosaics ranking among the finest in north-western Europe. Opened to the public for the first time in 1814, the site also represents one of Britain's earliest tourist attractions, remaining in the hands of the same family, the Tuppers, to this day. This book sets out to explain the villa, who built it, when, how it would have been used and what it meant within the context of the Roman province of Britannia. It also sets out to interpret the remains, as they appear today, explaining in detail the meaning of the fine mosaic pavements and describing how the villa was first found and explored and the conservation problems facing the site in the twenty-first century. Now, after 200 years, the remarkable story of Bignor Roman Villa is told in full in this beautifully illustrated book.

Trajan Places: Establishing Identity and Context for the Bosham and Hawkshaw Heads, by Miles Russell and Harry Manley, published November 2015 in Britannia (vol. 46, article, pp.151-169)   View Online

Two damaged, weathered marble portraits, both discovered in the 1780s at opposite ends of Roman Britain, one at Bosham in West Sussex, the other at Hawkshaw in Peeblesshire, are here re-examined and identified as portraits of the emperor Trajan. The Bosham head is interpreted as a post-mortem image of the deified Trajan set up at the margins of Chichester Harbour, probably during the visit to Britain by the emperor Hadrian in the early a.d. 120s. The Hawkshaw portrait of Trajan appears to have been refashioned from a likeness of Domitian and may originally have been part of a monument created to celebrate and commemorate the total conquest of Britain, in the early a.d. 80s, which was decapitated and buried during a period of unrest on the northern frontier.

The Pulborough Head: a mid-3rd-century Roman stone portrait from West Sussex, by Miles Russell, published 2016 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 154, article, pp.113-122) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18939] & The Keep [LIB/509465] & S.A.S. library