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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

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

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.

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
Client: Wardsbrook Properties Ltd.

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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