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Several Vessels of glass and earthenware, and Ornaments, discovered near Chilgrove, in Sussex, by Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt, published 1846 in Archaeologia; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity (vol. 31, article, pp.312-317)   View Online

I beg leave to present to the Society of Antiquaries the accompanying drawings, executed by Mrs. Vernon Harcourt, of some Antiquities recently discovered on the estate of Leyland Woods, Esq. near his residence at Chilgrove, in the county of Sussex, about five miles from Chichester: they consist partly of vessels intended to hold liquors, and partly of female ornaments, bracelets, and rings. Three of the Vessels are of glass (See Pl. IX.), one of which has been broken most unfortunately, for the glass is much clearer than in the others, and it is curiously ornamented with a linked pattern. The others are of coarse clay, without inscriptions, or any elaborate ornament. I am aware that vessels of this sort have been found in such abundance that they might scarcely seem to deserve the notice of the Society, were I not desirous to discuss the question which has been raised, whether they are of British or of Roman origin. The former opinion rests upon the assertion, that glass is more a British than a Roman manufacture, and that it does not occur in Roman sepulchres; that the earthenware vessels display no refinement of art, and while they are too large for lachrymatories, they are too small for cinerary urns; that the ornaments are evidently of British manufacture; for I found by an analysis of some fragments, that one hundred grains contained sixty-eight of copper and twenty-eight of tin, the rest being earth accidentally mixed with them, and zinc to the amount of less than a grain: there were traces of iron, but nothing more. Copper and tin are the chief mineral products of this island. And, lastly, that the bodies near which they were found, had been interred instead of burnt.

The effect of rainfall on the saturation level in the chalk at Chilgrove, W. Sussex from 1836 to 1819, by D. Halton Thomson, published 1919 in British Rainfall (article)

Harvest records at Chilgrove, Sussex, 1769-1910, by S.C. Russell, published 1921 in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (vol. 47, article, pp.57-59)

Daily well measurements during 1923 at Chilgrove, Sussex, and Detling, Kent, by Spencer C. Russell, published July 1924 in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (vol. 50, issue 211, article, pp.248-249)   View Online

A 100 year's record of rainfall and water levels in the chalk at Chilgrove, West Sussex, by D.H. Thomson, published 1938 in Journal of the Institute of Water Engineers (vol. 10, no. 3, article, pp.193-201)

Bow Hill Camp and its South-West Corner, by Stephen Coffin, published May 1951 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII no. 6, article, pp.135-137) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

A further 20 years' record of rainfall and water levels in the chalk at Chilgrove, West Sussex, by D.H. Thomson, published 1956 in Journal of the Institute of Water Engineers (vol. 20, article, pp.193-201)

Guide to the Roman Villas at Chilgrove, published c.1965 (pamphlet, Chichester Excavations Committee) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4401]

The Chilgrove Valley Landscape Project, by Alec Down, published August 1977 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 22, article, p.119, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

The mosaics of Chilgrove, by D. J. Smith, published 1979 in Chichester Excavations (vol. 4, article, pp.109-112, ISBN-10: 085033344X & ISBN-13: 9780850333442) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7196] & West Sussex Libraries

Roman mosaics.

The iron age pottery from Chilgrove 1, by A. Down, published 1979 in Chichester Excavations (vol. 4, article, pp.184-185, ISBN-10: 085033344X & ISBN-13: 9780850333442) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7196] & West Sussex Libraries

Chichester Excavations: The Roman Villas at Chilgrove and Upmarden, by Alec Down, published 1 August 1979 (vol. 4, 173 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 085033344X & ISBN-13: 9780850333442) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7196] & West Sussex Libraries

A tale of two farms: the Roman villas at Chilgrove, West Sussex, by Country Life contributor(s), published 17 December 1981 in Country Life (vol. 170 no. 4400, article, pp.2194-2196)

Monkton House, East Sussex, by Clive Aslet, published 12 September 1985 in Country Life (vol. 178 no. 4595, article, pp.700-704) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10105]

Remarkable house in the woods [Monkton House]; Architects: Sir Edwin Lutyens, by Michael Hanson, published 20 March 1986 in Country Life (vol. 179 no. 4622, article, p.751)

A late Roman "Hall" at Batten Hanger, West Sussex, by James Kenny, Malcolm Lyne, John Magilton and Paul Buckland, published November 2016 in Britannia (vol. 47, article, pp.193-207)   View Online

Excavation of the latest surviving structures of the villa at Batten Hanger in West Sussex indicates that a large aisled building was demolished in the late fourth or fifth century and replaced by a large hall 31.6 m long by 11.5 m wide, orientated approximately east-west. The survival of pad stones shows this space to have been divided into seven bays, with the more westerly bays screened off by a cross wall. The east wall of the building had collapsed outwards and was largely complete. A coin of Valentinian III suggests that occupation continued at least to the middle of the fifth century. The Supplementary Material available online (http://journals.cambridge.org/bri) contains a detailed presentation of the coin hoard and the pottery assemblages.