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Sussex Archaeological Collections: Relating to the history and antiquities of East and West Sussex, published 2009 (vol. 147, Sussex Archæological Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Prehistoric burnt flint mounds and later activity at Hammonds Mill Farm, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, by Chris Butler, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.7-18) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Rescue excavations carried out by the Mid Sussex Field Archaeological Team at Hammonds Mill Farm, Burgess Hill, located two prehistoric burnt flint mounds together with Roman and medieval features during the construction of a new lake adjacent to the Heron Stream.

Survey of the Bow Hill Camp, Stoughton, West Sussex, by Neville J. Haskins, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.19-23) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A survey of the enclosure known as the 'Bow Hill Camp' was carried out by a team from the Chichester and District Archaeology Society between February and May 2006. The enclosing bank and ditches were mapped and two major features within the enclosure were also recorded. Other visible features within the enclosure were inspected but were deemed to have no archaeological significance.

Fieldwalking at Duttle's Brow near Jevington, East Sussex: Prehistoric to Romano-British Downland occupation and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, by Greg Chuter, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.25-36) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A field walking project on the Downs at Duttle's Brow confirmed the location of finds made in the 1960s and produced evidence of settlement in the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman periods as well as evidence of Neolithic and Early Saxon activity.

A Roman cremation cemetery at 11-15 Offington Lane, Worthing, West Sussex, by Alice Thorne, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.37-49) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Five cremation groups were discovered during archaeological work at 11-15 Offington Lane, Worthing in May 2006. The remains comprise a small Roman cemetery, dating from the mid-second to the earlier third century AD. The results of this evaluation and excavation contribute towards knowledge of the Roman landscape of Worthing and in particular towards the understanding of rural funerary practice in the area.

Bosham: a key Anglo-Saxon harbour, by Philip MacDougall, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.51-60) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Evidence from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle demonstrates the existence of a substantial fleet of ships possessed by the Godwine family during the early eleventh century. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle further reveals that the port area for these ships was that of the waters of Chichester Harbour while specifically mentioning the Manor of Bosham. This article explores this evidence while examining the necessary extent of such facilities and their possible exact location. In particular, the site of a likely protected harbour is indicated together with additional areas that might have hosted facilities for the building, maintenance and winter protection of this fleet. It is also noted that it was this same fleet that came into possession of Harold Godwine, the last Saxon king of England.

Pottery from Late Saxon Chichester: a reassessment of the evidence, by Ben Jervis, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.61-76; and supplement pp.1-11) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

This article is a synthesis and analysis of the locally produced pottery recovered from excavations in Saxon Chichester. The context of Saxon Chichester from an archaeological and historical viewpoint and the pottery is discussed in detail. Descriptions of locally identified fabrics are presented along with discussion of their relationship to each other and pottery from other Saxon settlements in Sussex and Hampshire. The pottery is then discussed in relation to production, distribution, use and chronology, placing it in its local and regional context.

A medieval moated site at Stretham, near Henfield, West Sussex, edited by John Funnell, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.77-95; and supplement pp.13-26) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A substantial moated site was excavated by A. Barr Hamilton between the late 1950s and early 1980s. The remains uncovered within the moat indicated a multi-phased arrangement of buildings and other features including a substantial wooden revetment in the southern moat. The purpose of the various buildings is uncertain, but it is possible that they may have been used by the bishops of Chichester, who were also the Lords of the Manor, when visiting Stretham. The site was probably in use from the thirteenth century to the early/mid fifteenth century, when it appears to have been abandoned possibly as a result of flooding. Although the excavations were not to what may be considered modern standards the site is of sufficient importance to merit publication even in basic form.

Excavations at No. 5 John Street, Shoreham-By-Sea, West Sussex, by Simon Stevens, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.97-109) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Excavations in September 2001 of an area measuring c. 10 m by c. 7 m within the historic core of the town revealed a total of 32 archaeological features, including structural remains, rubbish pits, cesspits and post-holes. There was some modern truncation and an extension to the area uncovered a probable Victorian well. However, the majority of the datable features encountered were medieval, ranging in date from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, with some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century material. Medieval finds included pottery, both local and imported in origin and glazed and unglazed fragments of roof and floor tile. Large quantities of oyster shell and a small assemblage of animal bone were also recovered. Environmental evidence was recovered from a number of the features.

A nuns' priests' tale: the foundation of Easebourne Priory, 1216-1240, by Nicholas Vincent, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.111-123) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A charter recently brought to light in the British Library sheds light upon the foundation of Easebourne Priory, established first, c. 1216, as a college of priests rather than as a nunnery, only later, c. 1230, transformed into a community of nuns, as a dependency of Benedictine Rusper. The charter assists in the reconstruction of the history of the Bohon family of Midhurst. The circumstances of its preservation also shed light upon the provenance of the copy of Magna Carta today displayed in the Australian Parliament at Canberra.

The Cuckoo in the Nest: a Dallingridge tomb in the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel, by Nigel Saul, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.125-133) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

An indenture of 1 March 1476, preserved at Arundel Castle, records the acquisition by John Dudley of Atherington of a marble tomb in Arundel collegiate church. The tomb had originally been commissioned for the use of Richard Dallingridge, who had died five years before. The article identifies the tomb as the lower of the two currently supporting the effigies of the 9th Earl of Arundel and his wife in their chantry chapel on the south side of the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel. It is suggested that Dudley acquired the tomb for the use of his wife Elizabeth, whose interment at Arundel is referred to in his will of 1500. The article concludes by identifying the circumstances which could have led Richard Dallingridge, the last of the Dallingridges of Bodiam, to seek burial in a church at the opposite end of the county from his family's base.

The builder of Penhurst manor house, by Jeremy Goring, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.135-145) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

This article aims to explain how a Sussex clergyman of relatively humble birth came to acquire a considerable landed estate - and why, as a childless old man, he chose to build upon it a fine house that he probably knew he would not live in for long. The strange story of John Gyles throws light on economic, social and religious developments in eastern Sussex in the first half of the seventeenth century and may serve to modify a number of popular assumptions.

The retirement of Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, at Petworth 1621-1632, by Gordon R. Batho, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.147-152) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Henry Percy was released from incarceration in the Tower in 1621 by the influence of James Hay, a favourite of King James who had married Lucy, the Earl's younger daughter, against his wishes. He was at first confined to 30 miles from Petworth, but the restriction was later removed. He was not, however, allowed to attend Parliament even when Charles became king. Algernon, his heir, was called as Baron Percy. The Earl lived quietly, often visiting his older daughter Dorothy, wife of Viscount Lisle, and her children at Penshurst. Northumberland died at Petworth on 5 November 1632, the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot which had caused him so much grief, though he was clearly innocent.

Thirty something: Thomas Paine at Bull House in Lewes 1768-74 - six formative years, by Colin Brent, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.153-167) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

In spring 2008 the Sussex Archaeological Society completed a thorough repair of Bull House as a prelude to welcoming visitors at regular intervals. And in July 2009 Lewes celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of Thomas Paine's death at Greenwich near New York. So it seems timely to ponder the six years passed at Lewes by that 'Citizen of the World', arguably the most influential 'English' pamphleteer, herald of American Independence, father of British Radicalism, prophet of an 'Age of Reason'. And indeed, there is evidence that these years as an excise officer, shopkeeper and householder, as an assiduous juryman and vestryman, in a thriving county town and contentious parliamentary borough, did expose him to what he later identified in Rights of Man as 'republican' elements in English government and society. Moreover, during these years, his literary output, in verse and prose, seems already tinged with 'radical' sentiment, clearly and trenchantly expressed.

Contrasting communities: Anglican ecclesiastical development in Barcombe and Hamsey in the nineteenth century, by Pamela Combes, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.169-192) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Reflecting the general trend over much of Britain, the population of the Sussex parishes of Barcombe and Hamsey rose significantly throughout the nineteenth century. Clearly there were concerns that the locations of their ancient churches made it difficult for them to serve the developing communities. In both parishes new churches were built in what had become more densely populated areas. In Hamsey, the new church at Offham was dedicated in 1860 and the ancient church remained in use as a mortuary chapel. The change appears to have caused little local controversy perhaps because the rector was a member of the Shiffner family, by 1840 the greatest landowners in the parish. Although from as early as 1836 there had been plans in Barcombe to build a new chapel to the north of the parish, St Bartholomew's at Spithurst was not dedicated until 1880. That simple statement masks a story of parochial controversy that had wracked the parish community for over 40 years. The differing responses to similar circumstances reflect the underlying contrasts between the two communities. Hamsey was essentially a downland parish with an influential resident landowner, whereas Barcombe, a more complex and essentially Wealden community, lacked a dominant individual with sufficient power to implement change on his own terms.

A terrible toll of life: the impact of the 'Spanish Influenza' epidemic on Brighton 1918-19, by Jaime Kaminski, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.193-210) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

In 1918-19 Brighton was hit by three waves of the 'Spanish influenza' pandemic. A comparatively mild outbreak in July and early August 1918 was followed in October and November by a devastating and lethal outbreak. The epidemic culminated in a less deadly recrudescence in February and March 1919. As with much of Britain, the Brighton press generally played down the magnitude of the epidemic. But the high morbidity caused both social and economic disruption. This article considers how Brighton was affected by the pandemic and how the local authorities responded.

Results of archaeological and built heritage investigations along the A27 Southerham to Beddingham and Glynde junction improvements, by Adam Brossler, Matthew Pope and Jamie Preston, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, short article, pp.211-213) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

An Iron-Age-style statue of a fertility goddess from Fishbourne, by Martin Henig and David Rudkin, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, short article, pp.213-214) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Scandinavian influences in the Late Anglo-Saxon sculpture of Sussex, by Elizabeth Norton, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, shaort article, pp.215-217) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Archaeological investigations at the former site of Parbrook Bungalow, Stane Street, Billingshurst, West Sussex, by Simon Stevens, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, short article, pp.217-220) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

An archaeological excavation at 94-96 High Street, Shoreham-By-Sea, West Sussex, by Simon Stevens, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, short article, pp.220-224) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online