Archaeological Excavations on the Route of the A27 Westhampnett Bypass West Sussex, 1992: Volume 1 - Late Upper Palaeolithic-Anglo-Saxon: 21 (Wessex Archaeology Reports) - Hardcover

Fitzpatrick, A. P.; Powell, Andrew B.; Allen, Michael J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1874350191 ISBN 13: 9781874350194

Publisher: Wessex Archaeology, 2008

Synopsis

Five main excavations and a number of smaller ones were undertaken in advance of the construction of the A27 Westhampnett Bypass near Chichester, West Sussex, in 1992. This volume presents the evidence for settlement and related evidence that spans 11,000 years from the Late Upper Palaeolithic to the medieval. The sites examined included a Late Upper Palaeolithic palaeosol, two early Mesolithic residential base camps, isolated Early and Late Neolithic pits, an Early Bronze Age barrow and a Middle Bronze Age settlement, a Middle Iron Age settlement, an unusual Romano-British enclosure of unknown function, perhaps a shrine, and an Anglo-Saxon Sunken-Featured building. These excavations provide the first archaeological transect across part of the West Sussex Coastal Plain and provide a useful contrast to the well-explored Sussex Downs immediately to the north. The Iron Age, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are published in volume 2.

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About the Author

Michael J. Allen is proprietor of AEA Allen Environmental Archaeology and is one of the UK’s leading environmental archaeologists, specialising in geoarchaeology (particularly the analysis of hillwash and colluvium), land snail analysis, prehistoric landscape reconstruction and the management of environmental archaeological projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wessex Archaeology
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1874350191
• ISBN 13: 9781874350194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284