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Origins of Meeching: Carol White researches Newhaven's medieval settlement, by Carol White, published August 2008 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 115, article, p.6, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library   View Online

In 2006, I undertook a research project, the final module towards an undergraduate Diploma in Archaeology at the University of Sussex. My subject was the origins of Meeching, the medieval settlement that became Newhaven. Rescue excavations by Martin Bell, precipitated by the construction of a ring road around Newhaven town centre in the 1970s, revealed a second century AD Romano-British settlement as well as features filled with loess containing flint flakes dating to the Palaeolithic. These excavations were sited to the south of the town, between South Road and the River Ouse. Finds dating to the Bronze Age and Iron Age are documented at Castle Hill.

Ovingdean Medieval Manor, by John Funnell and Carol White, published April 2009 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 117, article, p.6, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library   View Online

In May and early June 2008 Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society (BHAS) returned to Hog Croft field at Ovingdean, East Sussex. BHAS Field Unit previously excavated here in 2002, 2003 and 2006, confirming a substantial medieval complex: 13th century manor house, barns and out-houses, a well and several large ditches. This project by Carol White, MA student at Sussex University, was to focus on an area of interest from the 2006 excavation, the location of a possible detached kitchen, discerned by finds of bone and large amounts of marine shell. Boundaries to south and east were defined by robbed out wall foundation ditches, revealing a large dressed stone block at the eastern terminus. The interior was littered with large flint nodules, mortar, roof and medieval floor tiles. The 2008 investigation aimed to confirm the kitchen location, and to examine the south west quadrant of the manor house.

Rocky Clump Baby Burials: Two separate neonatal inhumations found in Stanmer Park, by Carol White and Hayley Forsyth, published August 2015 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 136, article, p.8, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507923] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Brighton & Hove Archaeological Society Field Unit commenced excavations in the field to the South of Rocky Clump in Stanmer Park in 2011. In 2012 a discrete deposit of mussel shells was identified with pig and piglet skulls close by.