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March 2006
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The Roman
Road at Barcombe - by Rob Wallace
In
the summer of 2005 I was a supervisor at Barcombe Roman villa, when Chris
Butler suggested that a good research project would be to look at the
archaeology around the villa site. So I took the gauntlet and ran with it.
Following a conversation with the farmer Mark Stroude, he informed me of a
major flint scattering in Court House Field, which ran across the field and
covered approximately 30 meters in width. In July 05 my colleague and friend
Rhw Mitcheson and with help from fellow UCL students carried out some
geophysics. It should be noted at this point that sweetcorn was growing in
the field, and we were fortunate that one of area of interest was barren on
sweet corn and Mark gave us permission to put a test trench in. Which Rhw
supervised. The results were amazing. We had what we believed to be an
unknown Roman road (I say believed because we had no dateable artefacts from
the trench). The road had a metalled surface, under that was an agger and
then flint foundations. Unfortunately the remainder of the width of the road
lay under sweet corn. The trench was recorded and back filled.
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