Publications
Floodplain Development in, and the Vegetational History of, the Sussex High Weald and some Archaeological Implications, by Robert G. Scaife and P. J. Burrin, published 1983 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 121, article, pp.1-10) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8902] & The Keep [LIB/500308] & S.A.S. library
The Environmental Impact of Prehistoric Man as recorded in the Upper Cuckmere Valley at Stream farm, Chiddingly, by Robert G. Scaife and P. J. Burrin, published 1985 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 123, article, pp.27-34) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9514] & The Keep [LIB/500310] & S.A.S. library
Further Evidence for the Environmental Impact of Prehistoric Cultures in Sussex from Alluvial Fill Deposits in the Eastern Rother Valley, by Robert G. Scaife and P. J. Burrin, published 1987 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 125, article, pp.1-10) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9994] & The Keep [LIB/500304] & S.A.S. library
Tree trunks, Bronze Age remains and an ancient channel exposed on the foreshore at Bognor Regis, West Sussex, by Michael J. Allen, David A. Bone, Charlotte Matthews & Roger G. Scaife, published 2004 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 142, article, pp.7-23) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15489] & The Keep [LIB/500360] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:Exceptionally violent storms in January 1998 exposed numerous scattered tree trunks and the snaking course of an ancient channel on the foreshore at Bognor Regis. Records of previous antiquarian and archaeological studies, particularly the discovery of a 'submerged forest', had already highlighted the foreshore as an area of importance. The remains of waterlogged trees and prehistoric finds have been found since the mid-19th century along the edge of the former course of the Aldingbourne Rife, now a small river which divides Bognor Regis from Felpham. These remains and the fills of the ancient channel have only occasionally been exposed on the beach at low tides, following the removal of beach sand and gravels by storms. The tree trunks and branches were radiocarbon dated to the Early Bronze Age. Bronze Age activity in the form of pottery, worked flints and a fence line were found along the western side of the ancient channel. Pollen evidence and dendrochronological analysis suggest that there had been a wood in the area, its demise being due to rising relative sea levels.