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2009 News & Members Articles
Editorial
Welcome to the final Newsletter for 2009.
The usual suspects are reported this year
including the Culver Project, the Chapel site at Exceat and a summary of work at
Arlington during 2004 to 2009. Many
thanks to Rob Wallace, Greg Chuter and Bruce Milton for these reports.
Although the winter is usually a season of talks, in “Calling all members” Susan
Birks announces our first event of 2010, a Finds Processing day on 6th
February. Please note the date and
hope to see you there.
We expect work at Barcombe Bath House, Church Field to be reported in the next
Newsletter.
I am always looking for ways to improve the Newsletter, so if you have
suggestions or articles please forward to me at
david.worsell@tiscali.co.uk.
I would wish you and your families all the best for the festive season,
David Worsell
Culver Archaeological Project
2009 Season
This year’s excavation started on August the 8th. We hired in a 13
Tonne tracked excavator to open up our two sites. It was the generosity of the
Margary fund grant of £1,400 that allowed us to hire this plant, and the project
is truly grateful for this grant.
Our first site was opened in Court House Field. Our geophysical survey of 2008
had plotted a Roman road across the width of the field, running NE-SW.
Furthermore, the road appeared to have an S-bend, and there was a geophysical
anomaly which could indicate why the road S-bended.
The second site was opened up in Pond Field where we opened up part of our 2007
excavation and extended these to include features that disappeared under the
bulks.
Excavations at Arlington 2004
– 2009: A Major Roman Roadside Settlement
Between 2004 and 2009 archaeological investigation of the fields south of
Arlington village, by local volunteers under the direction of Greg Chuter
identified a hitherto unknown Roman roadside settlement, an associated cemetery
and the true course of the major Roman road between Pevensey and the Ouse
Valley.
Update on the Chapel site
at Exceat
We went back to the site this autumn with the hope of finishing the excavations
ready for backfilling. All the
foundation walls have now been uncovered and the area inside the walls was
quadranted with four of these areas excavated.
3 East End Lane, Ditchling by Chris
Butler - December 2009 [Click the title above for more...]
Excavations at 24/26,
Lucastes Avenue, Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
Chris Butler Archaeological Services (CBAS) was commissioned to carry out an
excavation at 24/26, Lucastes Avenue, Haywards Heath, on the 2nd
September 2009. The site is located on the north-west side of Haywards Heath,
and is in an area of the town that is predominantly residential in nature, with
the majority of buildings dating from the 1950s and 1960s.
A Watching Brief at Baldwins,
Keymer, West Sussex by Keith Butler
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