Bibliography - Itford Hill, near Beddingham, Lewes District, East Sussex
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A Date Stone at Itford , by W. H. Godfrey, F.S.A., published May 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 2, note, p.55) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

A Late Bronze Age Settlement on Itford Hill: A short account of excavations there in 1949 and 50, by G. P. Burstow, F.S.A. and G. A. Holleyman, F.S.A., published November 1951 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII no. 8, article, pp.175-177) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

The Late Bronze Age Settlement on Itford Hill, by G. P. Burstow, published May 1955 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 5 & 6, note, pp.101-102) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Late Bronze Age Settlement on Itford Hill, Sussex, by G. P. Burstow and G. A. Holleyman, published January 1958 in The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (vol. 23, article, pp.167-212)   View Online

In the years between the two World Wars considerable research was done by Sussex archaeologists on the Late Bronze Age settlements of the South Downs (figs, 1 and 30). Several habitation sites were partly excavated, notably Park Brow near Worthing by Mr Garnet R. Wolseley in 1924, New Barn Down, Harrow Hill near Worthing by Dr E. Cecil Curwen in 1933, and Plumpton Plain, near Brighton, by Dr E. Cecil Curwen and Mr G. A. Holleyman in 1934, and an analysis of the pottery from these sites by Professor C. Hawkes has provided a typological and chronological basis for subsequent research.
After World War II the authors, inspired by the work of Dr J. F. S. Stone on the Deverel-Rimbury Settlement on Thorny Down and of Dr G. Bersu at Little Woodbury, decided to strip completely a small group of earthworks of probable Late Bronze Age date on Itford Hill near Lewes. In the spring of 1949 the site, together with the adjacent linear earthwork and group of lynchets, was surveyed by Mr E. W. Holden and Mr G. A. Holleyman. Excavations were carried out for each of five seasons (1949-1953) by means of volunteers and with the financial backing of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society.

Archaeological report: Itford Hill, by G. P. Burstow, published December 1971 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 4, article, p.3) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

A Bronze Age Cemetery-Barrow on Itford Hill, Beddingham, by Eric W. Holden and Others, published 1972 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 110, article, pp.70-117) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2195] & The Keep [LIB/500319] & S.A.S. library

Excavations 1971: Itford Hill, by E. W. Holden and H. G. Holden, published March 1972 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 5, article, p.4) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Itford Hill flint artefacts, by Eric W. Holden, published 1975 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 113, shorter notice, p.187) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6177] & The Keep [LIB/500316] & S.A.S. library

Dry Valley project, by Martin Bell, published December 1979 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 29, article, pp.191-92, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Report on field work over Easter 1978 at Itford Bottom near Lewes and over Easter 1979 at the extreme western end of the South Downs in the parish of Chalton, Hampshire

The excavation of a Saxon grubenhaus at Itford Farm, Beddingham, East Sussex, by Richard James, published 2002 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 140, article, pp.41-47) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15109] & The Keep [LIB/500299] & S.A.S. library   View Online

During the summer and autumn of 1998, a watching brief was maintained by Archaeology South-East (a division of University College London Field Archaeology Unit) during the construction of a wastewater pipeline between Lewes and Newhaven. Visual inspection of the pipeline easement to the north of Itford Farm, Beddingham revealed a number of cut features in the chalk bedrock. Excavation of the features revealed one to be an Early Saxon sunken floored building (grubenhaus) of 5th- to 6th-century date, from which a small but interesting assemblage of pottery was recovered. A boundary ditch of probable Saxon-Norman date was also investigated. Further features proved to be natural solution hollows in the chalk. No other structures were observed within the easement, but the discovery indicates the longevity of settlement at Itford Farm, and provides an interesting, albeit small-scale, example of shifting settlement patterns within the Ouse Valley.