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Project and
Research News from Archaeology South-East
East Sussex
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A27 Brighton Bypass
Excavations undertaken in 1989-1990 were used as the
basis for a programme of research into settlement
and land-use on the chalk downland, from the Mesolithic
to the present day. Sites studied included two Bronze
Age settlements. Results published in 2002.
Project Officer: David Rudling
Client: English Heritage
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Barcombe Roman Villa, near Lewes
Following initial survey work by the Mid Sussex Field
Archaeological Team, the University College London
and MSFAT undertook a programme of excavations designed
to record the Roman Villa. From 2001-2005 this served
as the training excavation for Institute of Archaeology
undergraduates.
Project Officer: Luke Barber
Client: Institute of Archaeology
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Hastings Castle
and Ladies Parlour
A detailed topographical and archaeological survey
and interpretative assessment of Hastings Castle,
as an aid to the management and public presentation
of the monument.
Project Officers: Mark Tibble
Clients: Lord Cultural Resources
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Hastings Country Park
In April and May 2006, ASE carried out an Historic
Landscape Survey of Hastings Country Park, comprising
an area of mixed cliffs, woodland, heathland and farmland
to the east of Hastings, East Sussex, and forming
one of the most dramatic coastal landscapes in the
South-East of England.
Project Officer: Richard James
Client: Hastings Borough Council
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Lewes House Library, Lewes
Excavations in advance of the construction of a new
library revealed hundreds of pits, wells and other
features containing pottery and other finds dating
from the 11th century onwards.
Project Officer: Neil Griffin
Client: East Sussex County Council
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Rape of Hastings
A study of the social and economic history of medieval
East Sussex based on the evidence of more than 1150
individual interpretative surveys of houses earlier
than circa 1750.
Project Officer: David Martin
Client: English Heritage |
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St.
Anne’s Road, Eastbourne
Some 200 burials were recovered from this 5th-8th
century Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Many of the burials
were accompanied by grave goods, including fine examples
of ceramics, glass ware and metalwork. Full analysis
has been undertaken on both the skeletal remains from
the inhumations and cremations, and on the grave assemblages.
Elements of a Late Iron Age settlement were also identified,
and finds included silver and gold coinage.
Project Officer: Christopher Greatorex
Client: Prowting Homes. |
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St. Thomas’ C.E. Primary School, Winchelsea
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Project Officer: Richard James
Client: David Grey Associates
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Wardsbrook, Ticehurst
Detailed archaeological assessment of grade II* former
mansion in advance of application for listed building
consent of major alterations. Commission included
negotiations with English Heritage in relation to
the same, archaeological advice to the developer and
local authority conservation officer throughout the
project, and archaeological recording and reinterpretation
of the building throughout the building works.
Project Officer: David Martin
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Winchelsea Urban Survey
An extensive urban survey involving A major re-assessment
of the documentary and physical evidence of Edward
I’s planned town of Winchelsea and reinterpretation
of the Royal port.
Project Officers: David Martin
Clients: English Heritage, the National Trust
and East Sussex CC
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