Note: Boxgrove Priory is listed separately
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Halnaker House, Sussex, by T. Smith, published 1812 in The Gentleman's Magazine (vol. 72, article, p.409)
Parish of Boxgrove, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. II, rape of Chichester, pp.58-61) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Notes respecting Halnaker, Boxgrove, etc, A.D. 1570, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., F.S.A., published 1857 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 9, article, pp.223-226) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2094] & The Keep [LIB/500228] & S.A.S. library View Online
Ashdown Forest and Boxgrove Priory, by Edward Turner, published 1863 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 15, notes & queries, p.235) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2100] & The Keep [LIB/500234] & S.A.S. library View Online
Boxgrove, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, pp.68-72, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159] View Online
Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Boxgrove, published 1877 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode) View Online
A History of the Priory Church of St Mary and St Blaise, Boxgrove, by Rev. Richard Wells, published 1913 (pamphlet, Moore & Wingham) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4859][Lib 8269][Lib 9215] & West Sussex Libraries
Goodwood country, by N. Wymer, published 21 September 1951 in Country Life (article, pp.886-888)
Parish of Boxgrove, edited by L. F. Salzman, published 1953 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 4: The Rape of Chichester, pp.140-150, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 071290588X & ISBN-13: 9780712905886) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7398] & The Keep [LIB/500082] & R.I.B.A. Library & East Sussex Libraries View Online
A short description of Halnaker House, by Francis W Steer, published 1963 (2nd edition, Chichester: Mrs Redmond McGrath) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
The Cricket Match at Boxgrove in 1662, by Timothy J. McCann and Peter M Wikinson, published 1972 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 110, article, pp.118-122) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2195] & The Keep [LIB/500319] & S.A.S. library
Excavations at the Devil's Ditch, Boxgrove, W Sussex 1981, by Owen Bedwin, published 1982 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 120, excavation report, pp.37-44) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8620] & The Keep [LIB/500307] & S.A.S. library
Excavations at Ounces Barn, Boxgrove, West Sussex, by O. Bedwin, published 1983 in Bulletin of the London Institute of Archaeology (vol. 20, article, pp.83-87)
The Excavation of the Eastern Terminal of the Devil's Ditch [Chichester Dykes], Boxgrove, West Sussex, 1982, by Owen Bedwin and Clive Orton, published 1984 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 122, article, pp.63-74) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9140] & The Keep [LIB/500309] & S.A.S. library
Religious Survey 1851 - Westhampnett district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.147-160, ISBN-10: 085445036X & ISBN-13: 9780854450367) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10578][Lib 13824] & The Keep [LIB/500452][LIB/507827] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
District:Westhampnett district incl. Manhood, Birdham, West Itchenor, West Wittering, East Wittering, Earnley, Sidlesham, Selsey, Pagham, Hunston, North Mundham, Donnington, Appledram, New Fishbourne, Rumboldswyke, Merston, Yapton, Barnham, Felpham, Middleton, Binsted, Madehurst, Walberton, Eastergate, Boxgrove, Aldingbourne, Eartham, Oving, Tangmere, East Lavant, Singleton, West Stoke, Mid-Lavant, East Dean, Up-Waltham & Graffham
Late Iron Age and Romano-British Occupation at Ounces Barn, Boxgrove, West Sussex; Excavations 1982 - 1983, by Owen Bedwin and Chris Place, published 1995 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 133, article, pp.45-102) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13209] & The Keep [LIB/500288] & S.A.S. library
Man the Hunter' returns at Boxgrove: assesses what the Boxgrove excavations, now ending, tell us about early human society, by M. Roberts, published 1996 in British Archaeology (18, article, pp.8-9)
Who Was Gouter Martlew?, by Joan Jeffrey, published September 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 3, article, pp.113-114) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508810] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The search for Gouter Martlew who married Elizabeth Butterworth in Boxgrove in 1823
Fairweather Eden: Life in Britain half a million years ago as revealed by the excavations at Boxgrove, by Michael Pitts and Mark Roberts, published 1997 (356 pp., London: Century, ISBN-10: 0712676864 & ISBN-13: 9780712676861) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Boxgrove, West Sussex: Rescue excavations of a Lower Palaeolithic Landsurface (Boxgrove Project B, 1989-91), by M. B. Roberts, S. A. Parfitt, M. I. Pope and F. F. Wenban-Smith, published January 1997 in The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (vol. 63, article, pp.303-358) View Online
Abstract:In 1988 an area of 12,000 m2 in Quarry 2 at Boxgrove, West Sussex, was identified as being under threat front gravel and sand extraction. It was decided to sample the threatened area in 1989 with a series of 6 m2 test pits. The results of this survey identified two areas that merited further investigation, and area excavations were carried out at Quarry 2/C and Quarry 2/D in 1990 and 1991 respectively. These concentrated on the main Pleistocene landsurface (Unit 4c) and revealed spreads of knapping debris associated with the production of flint handaxes. Two test pits and area Q2/C produced handaxes, over 90% of which had tranchet sharpening at the distal end. A small amount of core reduction and only a few flake tools were found: these were all from Quarry 2/C. Faunal remains were located in the northern part of the excavations where Unit 4c had a calcareous cover. In Quarry 2/C the bones of C. elaphus and Bison sp. exhibited traces of human modification.
The project employed two methods of artefact retrieval: direct excavation in metre squares and bulk sieving of units within them. Comparison of the results from these methods suggests that, when on-site time is limited, the integration of these methods is a valid technique in both qualitative and quantitative terms for data recovery. The excavated areas are interpreted as a tool-sharpening and butchery site that may have been a fixed and known locale in the landscape (Q2/C), and a location on the periphery of an area of intensive knapping reduction (Q2/D). Sedimentological and microfaunal analyses demonstrate that Unit 4c was formed as a soil in the top of a marine-lagoonal silt, the pedogenic processes being similar to those observed after draining Dutch polder lakes. The palaeoenvironment is interpreted as an area of open grassland with some shrub and bush vegetation. In places the surface of the soil supported small ephemeral pools and flashes. This area of grassland is seen as a corridor for herds of ungulates moving east and west between the sea to the south and the relict cliff and wooded downland block to the north. Within this corridor these herds were preyed upon by various carnivores, and hominids.
The temperate sediments at Boxgrove were deposited in the later part of the Cromerian Complex and immediately pre-date the Anglian Cold Stage; they are therefore around 500,000 years old. The archaeological material from these and overlying cold stage deposits is broadly contemporary with that at High Lodge, Suffolk and Waverley Wood, Warwickshire.
The project employed two methods of artefact retrieval: direct excavation in metre squares and bulk sieving of units within them. Comparison of the results from these methods suggests that, when on-site time is limited, the integration of these methods is a valid technique in both qualitative and quantitative terms for data recovery. The excavated areas are interpreted as a tool-sharpening and butchery site that may have been a fixed and known locale in the landscape (Q2/C), and a location on the periphery of an area of intensive knapping reduction (Q2/D). Sedimentological and microfaunal analyses demonstrate that Unit 4c was formed as a soil in the top of a marine-lagoonal silt, the pedogenic processes being similar to those observed after draining Dutch polder lakes. The palaeoenvironment is interpreted as an area of open grassland with some shrub and bush vegetation. In places the surface of the soil supported small ephemeral pools and flashes. This area of grassland is seen as a corridor for herds of ungulates moving east and west between the sea to the south and the relict cliff and wooded downland block to the north. Within this corridor these herds were preyed upon by various carnivores, and hominids.
The temperate sediments at Boxgrove were deposited in the later part of the Cromerian Complex and immediately pre-date the Anglian Cold Stage; they are therefore around 500,000 years old. The archaeological material from these and overlying cold stage deposits is broadly contemporary with that at High Lodge, Suffolk and Waverley Wood, Warwickshire.
A use-wear analysis of selected British Lower Palaeolithic handaxes with special reference to the site of Boxgrove (West Sussex) : a study incorporating optical microscopy, computer aided image analysis and experimental archaeology. , by John C. Mitchell, 1998 at Oxford University (Ph.D. thesis)
An interpretation of the Boxgrove tibia, by A.M.W. Porter, published 1998 in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (vol. 8, no. 1, article, pp.7-10)
Boxgrove - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, pp.51-52, ISBN-10: 0854450424 & ISBN-13: 9780854450428) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13825][Lib 13828] & The Keep [LIB/500458][Lib/507864] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Boxgrove, by Mark Roberts, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.12-13, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Boxgrove: History of a Sussex Village, by John Kingsley Luffingham, published 14 December 1999 (144 pp + 16 plates, Boxgrove History Group, ISBN-10: 0953766306 & ISBN-13: 9780953766307) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries
The Valdoe: Archaeology of a Locality within the Boxgrove Paleolandscape, by Matthew Pope, Mark Roberts, Andrew Maxted and Pat Jones, published January 2009 in The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (vol. 75, article, pp.265-304) View Online
Abstract:A programme of archaeological assessment, funded through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, was undertaken at the Valdoe Quarry in West Sussex ahead of a renewed and final stage of gravel extraction at the site. This paper gives an account of the evidence for human activity recovered in the course of this work. The analysis demonstrates that the Valdoe Quarry contained archaeology relating to the transport and modification of bifaces. These signatures formed part of wider patterns of land-use operated by the same hominin groups found at Boxgrove, within a single, developing palaeolandscape. It is concluded that further activity sites remain to be discovered within the general environs of the Valdoe and the parish of East Lavant where historically there have been surface finds of bifaces.
Boxgrove Parish Register, published (no date) by the Sussex Family History Group and Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXW43, CD-ROM)
Abstract:Baptisms and Burials 1561-1901, Banns 1823-1891, Mar 1561-1900. Indexed Transcription. Includes 70 photographs inside and outside Church and nearby Priory. Vol. 43.