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Sussex Archaeological Collections: Relating to the history and antiquities of East and West Sussex, published 2010 (vol. 148, Sussex Archæological Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A Bronze Age settlement, Roman structures and a field system at Hassocks, West Sussex, by David Mullin, Edward Biddulph and Richard Brown, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.17-46) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Oxford Archaeology undertook a programme of archaeological work on land west of Mackie Avenue, Hassocks, West Sussex. Archaeological remains consisting of ditches, pits and postholes indicative of a number of phases of activity dating to the Bronze Age and Roman periods were revealed during these excavations. Excavated features include the remains of three post-built roundhouses of Bronze Age date, which were associated with a series of pits and possible field boundaries. A Roman rectangular structure was uncovered and this was associated with a field system. A ring-gully enclosing a number of pits, interpreted as a structure, was also excavated.

The excavation of prehistoric remains, a Roman road and post-medieval kiln at Stane Street, Westhampnett, West Sussex, by Greg Priestley-Bell, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.47-70) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Evaluation and excavation on the line of Stane Street at Westhampnett, near Chichester, West Sussex revealed significant remains relating to the Roman road, including part of the agger, a flanking ditch, both zonal ditches and the rutted surface of a metalled 'carriageway'. Roman Stane Street at this location was c. 25 m wide in total, with c. 7 m between zonal ditch and flanking ditch (all measurements taken from the centres of the ditches). While the flanking ditch produced mid first-century AD pottery, a small quantity of Early Saxon pottery, together with fourth-century Roman pottery, was recovered from the surface of the rutted southern 'carriageway'. A brick kiln of probable mid sixteenth- to seventeenth-century date was revealed during the evaluation and preserved in situ. A small number of prehistoric features were also identified, including four possible Bronze Age pits, a Middle Iron Age ditch and a Late Iron Age/Early Roman pit.

The street plan of Lewes and the Burghal Hidage, by Michael Holmes, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.71-78) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The striking rectangular pattern of the central Lewes streets is considered in its historical context. The absence of evidence for Roman settlement of the town and its first recorded appearance in the Burghal Hidage suggest an early Saxon origin. Detailed measurements of the layout of features of the town lead to a comparison with Hidage towns such as Wareham and Cricklade which were deliberately laid out as fortified settlements in the mid to late ninth century. It is concluded that Lewes fits this pattern. Based on this and recent discoveries, an estimate of the probable position of the Burgh Ditch is made.

The medieval hospital of St Nicholas, Lewes, East Sussex: excavations 1994, by Luke Barber and Lucy Sibun, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.79-110) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

During the spring/summer of 1994 excavations were undertaken at the former site of the medieval hospital of St Nicholas, Lewes, East Sussex prior to redevelopment works. Two areas were excavated but little structural evidence for the hospital buildings was located. One area revealed part of the hospital cemetery and 103 burials were excavated. Also within this area were two large quarries thought to have been dug during a construction phase at the hospital, probably in the twelfth century. The second area contained yet another quarry, used for the disposal of large quantities of domestic refuse, particularly pottery, in the early thirteenth century. This area also contained the remains of a sill wall for a timber-framed building, which may have served the hospital.

The history of the hospital of St Nicholas, Lewes and its successors, by Christopher Whittick, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.111-128) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Although there is little direct evidence for the hospital in the medieval period, it featured in accounts of the battle of Lewes and as a landmark. Its usefulness enabled it to survive the dissolution of Lewes Priory, its patron house, and it was gradually appropriated by the authorities of the parish of St Anne, while maintaining an independent charitable status which ensured its exemption from the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834. Featuring on maps of Lewes from 1618 onwards, its importance was recognised as early as the 1770s by an antiquary who commissioned drawings of the ruins. Redevelopment of the site began in 1867, and the erection of a school in 1910 produced further images in the form of architects' drawings and photographs. This article can be read as a pendant to the excavation report (for which it was originally commissioned - see this volume pp. 79-109) or as a piece of free-standing research, which should nonetheless inform any future archaeological investigation of the site.

A Monumental Palimpsest: the Dacre tomb in Herstmonceux Church, by George Elliott, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.129-144) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

According to Pevsner, the Dacre Tomb at Herstmonceux is "the one really spectacular piece in the church". The effigies on the tomb had traditionally been taken to represent Thomas Fiennes, second Baron Dacre of the South (c. 1470-1533) and his son, Sir Thomas Fiennes (c. 1490-1528). But in these Collections in 1916, J. E. Ray cast doubt on that attribution, and on other aspects of the monument. Based on its style and heraldry but without undertaking any structural investigation, Ray demonstrated that the effigies had originally belonged to the tomb of Thomas Hoo, Lord Hoo and Hastings (d. 1455) and his half-brother Thomas Hoo (d. 1486) at Battle Abbey. In 1969, the restoration of the tomb provided an opportunity to test Ray's ideas. This article, written by the Master Mason who undertook the work, not only confirms most elements of Ray's hypothesis, but also provides important new evidence of the approach of those who created the monument as it now stands.

The gardens, orchards and park at Danny in Hurstpierpoint: an analysis of the estate map of 1666, by Paula Henderson, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.145-156) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

An estate map of Danny dated 1666, held in the East Sussex Record Office, is a little known, but extremely interesting, record of the Elizabethan house in its mid-seventeenth century setting. The following short essay is an analysis of that map, considering the architecture of the house itself, which is shown in two bird's eye views: one on the map and the other, quite possibly by another hand, in an inset detail. Many of the divisions of the landscape around the house - indicated by the walls, hedges and courts - appear to be contemporary with the house, while the planting and other features represent later work. Estate maps, such as this one, reveal important information about how landscapes developed and changed over time. The Danny map also provides clues about the personality and interests of the man who owned the estate at the time, Peter Courthope.

Houses and parliament: local politics, tenure and 'townscapes': the case of Sussex Boroughs in the 'long eighteenth century', by Spencer Thomas, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.157-176) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Little or no attention has been paid to the relationship between electioneering and urban morphology before 1832 despite a general literature that documents patrons' manipulation of small boroughs to improve and/or ensure their or their nominees' election to parliament.1 In Sussex, proprietorial boroughs revealed a pernicious association between the electoral ambitions, power and influence of local landed interests, both aristocracy and gentry, and the acquisition of burgage plots. Their ruthlessness had a profound impact on the appearance of places subject to burgage and related tenures.

The drawings of Herstmonceux Castle by James Lambert, senior and junior, 1776-7, by John H. Farrant, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.177-182) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

In 1776 Lord Dacre commissioned the Lamberts to record his ancestors' home before its partial demolition. Their surviving working drawings were a key element in English Heritage's reassessment of Herstmonceux Castle in relation to other great fifteenth-century buildings. In 2006 East Sussex Record Office acquired the Lamberts' watercolours prepared for their client. The watercolours hitherto held to be those are identified as copies made by S. H. Grimm for William Burrell.

'No lodgings to be had for love or money': the business of accommodating visitors in eighteenth-century Brighton, by Jaime Kaminski, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.183-202) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Brighton's transition from a town with a broadly fishing- and maritime-based economy to one of the country's principal seaside resorts has been widely studied. However, the mechanisms by which the town sustained the increasing number of visitors are less well understood. In the eighteenth century, long before hotels and boarding houses became commonplace, the visitor economy of the town was heavily underpinned by local residents providing accommodation for visitors. This could take the form of renting spare rooms in their own houses (lodgings), or entire houses (lodging houses). They were supplemented to a much lesser extent by inns and boarding houses, the precursors of hotels. The situation was such that in 1799 one-third of the 1200 houses in the town provided visitor accommodation of some description. This paper looks at the role that the residents and speculators played in the development of Brighton's accommodation sector.

The construction of St Peter's Church, Brighton, c.1818-1835, by Sue Berry, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.203-212) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

St Peter's church is a landmark in the City of Brighton and Hove. It is the focal point of the view northwards from the Royal Pavilion. Charles Barry, architect of the Houses of Parliament, designed it in the fashionable Gothic style. The parish Vestry knew that the old parish church was too small. It agreed to the suggestion of a new church (rather than extending the old one) because of the offer of land by Thomas Read Kemp and by the prospect of funding by the Church Building Commission. The Church Building Committee's management of the financial records on behalf of the parish was poor. The parish argued with the Commission and lost a court case brought against them for repayment of a loan.

'John Halsham': the perfect countryman, by Peter Brandon, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.213-224) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

John Halsham' was the first to advocate landscape protection for Sussex, and his insightful interpretation of the Sussex Weald (1898-1913) has never been matched. He was also a most distinguished recorder of the lives, histories, habits and speech of the working-class Wealden inhabitants who shaped the region. His observations have left an unsurpassed record of change in the Sussex Weald in a period marking the transition between old and new ways of living. As a true countryman, he is representative of a number of contemporary Sussex writers who sought to repel the twentieth-century changes in the county emanating from London and other large cities.

The Duke and the radical: an Edwardian land conflict in Sussex, by John Godfrey and Brian Short, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.225-246) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Between 1908 and 1913 the radical Australian politician R. L. Outhwaite carried out a sustained campaign of criticism of the 15th Duke of Norfolk, as part of a wider attack upon landed wealth by Lloyd George and some other Liberal MPs and their supporters. Papers preserved in the Arundel Castle Archives, together with a wide range of other contemporary sources, make it possible to trace the chronology and rationale of Outhwaite's attack, together with the defence, which was mounted primarily by Edward Mostyn, the duke's loyal and influential Arundel agent. The national context of this acrimonious debate between these three men is traced, and the local society and economy of the Arundel estate in the years before the Great War are also analysed.

Beyond the villa: excavation at Southwick, West Sussex, 2008, by Giles Standing, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, short article, pp.247-251) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A medieval pot from Milton Street, East Sussex, by Luke Barber, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, short article, p.252) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Wildene, a hitherto unidentified Domesday Book holding in Hartfield Hundred, by M. J. Leppard, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, short article, p.253) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Three place-name related Sussex surnames, by M. J. Leppard, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, short article, p.254) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The earliest royal visit to the City of Brighton and Hove?, by Michael Ray, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, short article, p.255) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The leather from 1 -3 Tower Street, Rye, East Sussex, by Quita Mould, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, short article, p.256) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The air-raid shelter at St Mary's CE School, Climping, West Sussex, by Luke Barber, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, short article, p.257) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Peterborough ware from Westbourne: a rare Middle Neolithic 'ritual' deposit from the West Sussex Coastal Plain, by Mike Seager Thomas, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.7-16) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Excavation by Development Archaeology Services at Westbourne, West Sussex, has uncovered a small pit containing an unusually fine assemblage of Neolithic Peterborough ware pottery, including one of only two complete Peterborough ware profiles found in the county to date. This paper discusses their internal and external relationships. Features and pottery of these sorts are widely seen as ritual or symbolic rather than functional (e.g. Drewett 2003; Thomas 1999). The evidence from Westbourne points, however, not to ritual or symbolic practices as an explanation of Peterborough ware pits locally, but to everyday domestic routine.