Publications
Offham, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. II, p.69, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3315] & The Keep [LIB/500158] View Online
Barleys, The Home of Mr. Edwin Fisher, Designed by Mr. Darcy Braddell and Mr. Humphry Deane, by Country Life contributor(s), published 18 December 1942 in Country Life (article)
The possible Remains of a Neolithic Causewayed Camp on Offham Hill, by Eric W. Holden, published 1973 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 111, shorter notice, pp.109-110) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2196] & The Keep [LIB/500318] & S.A.S. library
Excavations 1976: Offham Hill, Hamsey, by P. L. Drewett, published December 1976 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 20, article, p.97, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
The excavation of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Offham Hill, East Sussex, 1976, by Peter Drewett and others, published December 1977 in The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (vol. 43, article, pp.201-242) View Online
Abstract:The small causewayed enclosure on Offham Hill, East Sussex, being one of the only five surviving Neolithic enclosures in Sussex, was excavated in 1976 prior to its final destruction by ploughing. The enclosure consisted of two incomplete circles of discontinuous banks and ditches. Molluscan analysis indicated that the structure was built in a woodland clearing and that the ditches were not contemporary. A few pot sherds and flint tools were found in the shallow ditches, together with a crouched burial and disarticulated human bones. No conclusively Neolithic features were found in the interior. The possibility that this enclosure, together with others of similar type, may have been areas defined for exposure burial is discussed.
The Offham Chalkpit Tramway and Incline - A Survey and Description, by R. G. Martin, published 1985 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 15, article, pp.11-15) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/15] & The Keep [LIB/506525] Download PDF
Abstract:The tramway at the Offham Chalkpit extended from the chalk pit base level down to a branch off the Upper Ouse Navigation known as Chalkpit Cut. It was built in 1809 and is shown on the First Edition of the 25 inch Ordnance Survey map published in 1873, but on the Second Edition, dated 1898 there is no sign of the tramway and the chalk pit is described as "disused".
George Shiffner and the Offham Chalkpit Tramway, by Tom Evans, published 1985 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 15, article, pp.15-18) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/15] & The Keep [LIB/506525] Download PDF
Abstract:A recent re-examination of the Shiffner manuscripts at the East Sussex Record Office, Lewes has been undertaken with special attention to those that throw light on the sources of supply of materials for plateways in the South of England in the early years of the nineteenth century.
George Shiffner was an industrialist with Russian origins, a military background and was later M.P. for Lewes, (1812-1826). He lived at Coombe Place, Offham just north of Lewes and operated a business at the Offham chalk pits. During the "canal mania", when the River Ouse above Lewes was being canalised under the direction of William Jessop Jnr., George Shiffner had the intention of supplying chalk by means of a "cut" from the Ouse and an inclined plane with a plateway to transport the chalk to barges moored at a wharf and possibly with limekilns near the foot of the incline. In 1807 this must have been quite a revolutionary project for rural Sussex.
George Shiffner was an industrialist with Russian origins, a military background and was later M.P. for Lewes, (1812-1826). He lived at Coombe Place, Offham just north of Lewes and operated a business at the Offham chalk pits. During the "canal mania", when the River Ouse above Lewes was being canalised under the direction of William Jessop Jnr., George Shiffner had the intention of supplying chalk by means of a "cut" from the Ouse and an inclined plane with a plateway to transport the chalk to barges moored at a wharf and possibly with limekilns near the foot of the incline. In 1807 this must have been quite a revolutionary project for rural Sussex.
Our Parish: Tales of Offham, Hamsey and Cooksbridge, by Jack Harmer, published 1991 (Offham: St Peter's Church Restoration Fund) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503469] & East Sussex Libraries
Life of a Country Carpenter: The Story of Harold Pelling's Early Life in Offham and His Service in the First World War, edited by Susan Rowland, published 1993 (48 pp., published by the editor, ISBN-10: 1898950008 & ISBN-13: 9781898950004) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries
The improvement of Coombe Place, by David Brock, published 1996 in The Georgian Group Journal (vol. VI, article, pp.74-84)
The Offham Brooch, by Helen Poole, published 1996 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 134, shorter article, pp.232-233) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13390] & The Keep [LIB/500296] & S.A.S. library
Our Parish: Tales of Offham, Hamsey and Cooksbridge, by Jack Harmer, published 1 May 1997 (2nd revised edition, 64 pp., S. Rowland, ISBN-10: 1898950067 & ISBN-13: 9781898950066)
The Offham Brooch, by Thea Valentine, published July 1997 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 9 Number 4, article, pp.13-15, Summer 1997) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15969]
Abstract:Summary of article by Helen Poole in the Sussex Archaeological Collections relating to the 13th century gold Offham Brooch, found by a metal detectorist near Coombe House Farm, Offham.
Offham Smock Mill, Hamsey, by Bob Bonnett, published 2013 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 43, article, pp.26-28, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/43] & The Keep [LIB/507840] Download PDF