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Some Recollections of a Part of the "Stane Street Causeway" in its Passage through West Sussex, by Peter J. Martin, F.G.S., published 1859 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 11, article, pp.127-146) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2096] & The Keep [LIB/500230] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Stane Street, a monograph, illustrated by William Hyde, by Hilaire Belloc, published 1913 (London: Constable & Co.)   View Online

On Stane Street in its passage over the South Downs, by Eliot Curwen, published 1915 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 57, article, pp.136-148) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2142] & The Keep [LIB/500275] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A Note on Stane Street on Halnaker Hill, by Eliot Curwen, M.A., M.B., B.C., published 1916 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 58, article, pp.132-137) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2143] & The Keep [LIB/500276] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Topography of Stane Street, by Captain W. A. Grant, published 1922 (London: John Long Ltd.) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Two Sections through Stane Street on Halnaker Hill, by Samuel Edward Winbolt, M.A., published 1928 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 69, notes & queries, pp.223-225) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2154] & The Keep [LIB/500287] & S.A.S. library

The Story of Roman Sussex II - Stane Street, by S. E. Winbolt, M.A., published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 6, article, pp.242-247) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Photomicrographs of wood sections, by S.N.Q. contributor, published February 1929 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. II no. 5, note, p.150) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8951] & The Keep [LIB/500204] & S.A.S. library

Roman road from London to Sussex, by Ivan D. Margary, published 1932 in Antiquity (vol. 6, no. 23, article, pp.350-356)

With a Spade on Stane Street, by S. E. Winbolt, published 1936 (Methuen & Co.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12565] & West Sussex Libraries

This is a most welcome and timely addition to Sussex archaeology, for although Belloc's The Stane Street (1913) gives a very interesting account of the road, it has received severe criticism in Capt. W. A. Grant's The Topography of Stane Street (1922) on various technical grounds. Much additional evidence had since come to light, field-work methods have improved, and altogether an up-to-date treatise on this road had become urgently desirable to bring it into line with other roads in the county. Mr. Winbolt has studied Stane Street for many years and gives us an interesting and thorough account of its exact route and of the work done in tracing the more doubtful portions, most of it being his own. He is rarely satisfied with the evidence for these portions unless it includes actual metalling in situ, and one feels that at very few points can any doubt remain as to the exact position of the road. At a few points the line shown on the O.S. maps is found to need correction.
A valuable feature of the book, which is very well produced, on good paper and in very clear type, is the wealth of maps and illustrations, the latter well chosen to show typical portions of the visible but disused sections. A complete set of 6-inch map strips covers the whole route, and appropriate notes of remains, sections dug, and of the strict alignments on which the route was based (put in by Capt. Grant, R.E.) added upon them, give a very clear and accurate account of the exact course followed. There are also plans of special details en route, notably of the wayside Roman waterworks system at Grevatts Wood near Bignor, and of the Epsom and Ewell districts which presented certain difficult problems now cleared up.
This book will be the standard work on Stane Street for many years to come and Sussex archaeologists should be very grateful for receiving such an attractively produced and interesting account of an important piece of field-work and detailed study on one of the major antiquities of the county.

Milestones on Stane Street: Organised Search Proposed, by S. E. Winbolt, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 8, article, pp.554-558) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

Stane Street through Pulborough, by S. E. Winbolt, M.A., published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 10, article, p.695) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

Stane Street on Gumber Down, by Eliot Curwen, F.S.A. and E. Cecil Curwen, F.S.A., published February 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 5, article, pp.134-136) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

Stane Street North of Pulborough, by S. E. Winbolt, published February 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 5, note, p.155) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

Stane Street at Billingshurst, by S. E. Winbolt, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 10, article, pp.685-686) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

A Section through Stane Street near Chichester, Sussex, by A. W. G. Lowther, published 1941 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 82, article, pp.110-114) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2167] & The Keep [LIB/500347] & S.A.S. library

Stane Street near Hill House, Slinfold, by I. D. Margery, published February 1946 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 1, note, pp.20-21) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

Stane Street at Bignortail Wood, by I. D. Margery, published May 1949 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XII no. 6 & 7, note, p.164) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8230] & The Keep [LIB/500214] & S.A.S. library

Stane Street in the Dark Ages, by Gordon J. Copley, published 1950 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 89, article, pp.98-104) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2174] & The Keep [LIB/500340] & S.A.S. library

Stane Street at Bakers Hill, Slinfold, by I. D. Margary, published May 1952 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII nos. 9 & 10, note, p.212) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

"Stanstrete" and the Charter of 930 A.D., by T. R. Holland, M.A., published May 1954 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 1 & 2, article, pp.22-25) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Archaeological investigations at the former site of Parbrook Bungalow, Stane Street, Billingshurst, West Sussex, by Simon Stevens, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, short article, pp.217-220) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The excavation of prehistoric remains, a Roman road and post-medieval kiln at Stane Street, Westhampnett, West Sussex, by Greg Priestley-Bell, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.47-70) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Evaluation and excavation on the line of Stane Street at Westhampnett, near Chichester, West Sussex revealed significant remains relating to the Roman road, including part of the agger, a flanking ditch, both zonal ditches and the rutted surface of a metalled 'carriageway'. Roman Stane Street at this location was c. 25 m wide in total, with c. 7 m between zonal ditch and flanking ditch (all measurements taken from the centres of the ditches). While the flanking ditch produced mid first-century AD pottery, a small quantity of Early Saxon pottery, together with fourth-century Roman pottery, was recovered from the surface of the rutted southern 'carriageway'. A brick kiln of probable mid sixteenth- to seventeenth-century date was revealed during the evaluation and preserved in situ. A small number of prehistoric features were also identified, including four possible Bronze Age pits, a Middle Iron Age ditch and a Late Iron Age/Early Roman pit.

Archaeological investigations of the Devil's Ditch at Windmill Park, Stane Street, Halnaker, West Sussex, by Anna Doherty and Nick Garland, published 2015 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 153, article, pp.41-46) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18934] & The Keep [LIB/509033] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A small excavation was carried out on a section of "the Devil's Ditch" at Halnaker. This ditch-and-bank entrenchment has generally been interpreted as part of a series of dykes enclosing a c. 1st century BC territorial oppidum at the western edge of the Sussex coastal plain. However, previous campaigns of excavation have produced ambiguous dating evidence, leading to some suggestions that the monument is actually of medieval date. Although there were some indications of Roman and/or medieval re-cutting of the ditch, OSL dating of the primary fills produced date ranges falling entirely within the 1st millennium BC. The most significant finding is that the earliest fills of the ditch had started to accumulate by c.80 BC at the latest. This evidence essentially disproves the theory that the ditch was first established as boundary to a medieval deer park but it also poses questions about whether the entrenchment could have been founded before the Late Iron Age.