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Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Lavant, published 1877 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

The Lavant Caves, by The Editor, published 1894 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 39, notes & queries, p.227) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2124] & The Keep [LIB/500257] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Rooks Hill and the Golden Calf, by J. Lewis André, F.S.A., published 1900 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 43, notes & queries, p.283) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2128] & The Keep [LIB/500261] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Old Coach Road, by Muriel Ricardo, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 12, article, p.854) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

Parish of Lavant, edited by L. F. Salzman, published 1953 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 4: The Rape of Chichester, p.101, 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

Guide to the Parish Church of St Mary, East Lavant, by Francis W Steer, published 1976 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6307]

A Romano-British Villa at Little Oldwick Copse, Lavant, by F. G. Aldsworth and Ernest Black, published 1989 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 127, archaeological note, pp.243-244) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10604] & The Keep [LIB/500302] & S.A.S. library

Seventeenth Century Sussex Cricket: East Lavant, 1628, by Timothy J McCann, published 1991 (article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11087]

Lavant: A Century of Change, edited by Elizabeth Woodford, published 2000 (Lavant History Group) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14464][Lib 15083]

Of Flint Mines and Fossil Men: The Lavant Caves Deception, by Miles Russell, published February 2000 in Oxford Journal of Archaeology (vol. 19, issue 1, article, pp.105-108)   View Online
Abstract:
A series of subterranean passages first recorded in the late nineteenth century at Lavant, near Chichester have generally been interpreted as the remains of a Neolithic flint mine, one of many such sites recorded from the South Downs. Unfortunately it would appear that the site is a fraud. Not just any fraud, however, for it is likely that it represents just one in a series of increasingly complex and elaborate hoaxes staged by the very same individual responsible for the creation, identificatiom and discovery of 'Piltdown Man'.