Baxter's Printworks, Lewes
The Baxter's Printworks in St. Nicholas Lane, Lewes closed its doors in 2002, ending two centuries of the family business's association with the town. The majority of the factory complex was demolished in 2006, in advance of a new residential development. Given its location in the heart of the historic town, a condition was placed on the planning permission for the development requiring a programme of archaeological work at the site.

Project Officer: Simon Stevens
Client: Rokbuild Ltd.

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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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Lewes House Residential
Currently two sites are under excavation within historic Lewes, adjacent to Walwers Lane and to the rear of the new library. Extensive remains of medieval and post medieval date have been uncovered, as well as rare evidence of the earlier occupation of the town. By the time the excavations are complete at the end of September many new insights into Lewes' past will have been revealed that will enable us to obtain a comprehensive picture of Lewes' past.

Project Officer: Dan Swift
Client: Ashmill

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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: Darryl Palmer (with Rob Cole and Lesley Davidson)
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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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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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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St. Thomas' C.E. Primary School, Winchelsea
The excavation of a site that lies within the centre of historic Winchelsea. Where there was a high likelihood of finding deposits of medieval and post-medieval date.

Stone footings relating to a probable medieval building were associated with a partially stone-lined cellar, complete with access steps cut into the clay. Some of the features were preserved in situ.

Project Officers: Richard James
Clients: David Grey Associates

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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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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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Keymer Avenue and Seaview Avenue, Peacehaven
Archaeology South East undertook extensive archaeological investigations on land to the north of Keymer Avenue and at Seaview Avenue, Peacehaven, in advance of the construction of 160 new homes.

Work included a geophysical survey, which indicated the presence of prehistoric landscape features, such as enclosures and trackways, this lead to an archaeological evaluation at both sites and confirmed that the anomalies shown from the geophysical survey were archaeological in nature and were mainly dated to the Iron Age. Seven enclosures and two trackways were identified.

Project Officer: Paul Riccoboni
Client: Bovis Homes Ltd.

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