Publications
Humours of Book Collecting - Frederick Locker-Lampson, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 10, article, pp.456-458) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]
Historic Houses of Sussex - The Smuggler's Cottage, Crawley Down, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 8, article, pp.482-484) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]
A Romano-British Ironworking Site at Crawley Down, Worth, Sussex, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1985 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 5, article, pp.9-20, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559] Download PDF
Abstract:The site was discovered in 1980 during an investigation of the land along the Felbridge Water, upstream from the site of Warren Furnace, in an area known in the Middle Ages as Smythford and later as Smithfield. Evidence of ironworking was noted at three locations: (A) TQ 3586 3898, (B) TQ 3584 3899 and (C) TQ 3602 3905, and, the excavation of the first two is the subject of this report. It should be noted that some 150m to the east there is a moated site, adjacent to a field once known as Bottle Field or Botley's. Here there is some surface evidence of habitation in the form of house platforms and hollow-ways, and the Roman road from London to Brighton (Margary 150) passes through the field to cross the stream near the moat.
The sites are in young woodland, on the gently sloping side of a small valley, just above a steep drop of 2-3m down to the stream. The geology of the area is Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand. On the north side of the valley a band of clay outcrops, and it has been suggested that this may have been the source of ore, as the same band outcrops beside the later Warren Furnace downstream, and may have been an ore source for that site.
The site has been given the name Smythford.
The sites are in young woodland, on the gently sloping side of a small valley, just above a steep drop of 2-3m down to the stream. The geology of the area is Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand. On the north side of the valley a band of clay outcrops, and it has been suggested that this may have been the source of ore, as the same band outcrops beside the later Warren Furnace downstream, and may have been an ore source for that site.
The site has been given the name Smythford.
Prizefights at Crawley Down, by Jeremy Hodgkinson, published May 1988 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 40, article, p.13) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/40] & The Keep [LIB/500482]
Crawley Down Village and Church: the first 150 years, edited by Pamela Petrie, published 1993 (booklet, 56 pp., All Saints' Parochial Church Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12038] & West Sussex Libraries
Grange Road, Crawley Down (NGR: TQ34403730) - watching brief report, by Sean Wallis, published January 2012 (Reading: Thames Valley Archaeological Services) View Online