SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGY SYMPOSIUM 2026
- Chris Butler
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Saturday 21 March, 10am-5pm
Venue: Kings Church, Lewes and Online by Zoom
The second lecture will be by Dr Jon Baczkowski (CBAS)
‘Rattle Road, Westham, the investigation of a significant coastal landscape’
Between July 2021 and November 2024 CBAS undertook excavations in advance of the construction of a housing development on land north and south of Rattle Rd, Westham. Approximately 12 hectares of landscape was investigated across three areas and twelve trenches were excavated. The findings of the project were significant and document the last 12,0000 years of human activity upon the site. Most notable was evidence of Neolithic use, including an oval barrow, a possible structure, and numerous pits. Also recorded was evidence of Roman activity, including 500m of the Barcombe to Pevensey Roman Road and a previously unknown spur road. Five well preserved Roman salterns were also recorded located close to the edge of the Mountney Levels, a former tidal estuary. Lastly, evidence of a Saxon to early Norman settlement was recorded. This lecture will present the key fieldwork results and initial post-excavation findings, along with the results of the geoarchaeological investigations which have revealed an important and long used landscape.
Archaeology Poster Displays, Bookstalls, and Book Signings by author Luigi Kohli.
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