Publications
Archaeological investigations on the site of the former Rowe's Garage, Chichester, West Sussex , by Rachael Seager Smith, Nicholas Cooke, Rowena Gale, Stephanie Knight, Jacqueline I. McKinley and Chris Stevens, published 2007 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 145, article, pp.67-80) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15980] & The Keep [LIB/500363] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:Excavation on land formerly occupied by Rowe's Garage on The Hornet, Chichester revealed a large, mid-first century AD ditch, adding to the series of possibly defensive ditches previously identified immediately east of the later Roman town. During the rest of the Romano-British period, the site was used for small-scale domestic settlement, crop-processing and other agricultural activities. After the fourth century AD much of the western part of the site was quarried for clay and gravel. A handful of features provided evidence for the medieval and later suburb known to have developed outside the Eastgate from the thirteenth century; any more ephemeral remains were probably destroyed during the construction of the modern Rowe's Garage itself.