ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS ON THE ROUTE OF THE A27 WESTHAMPNETT BYPASS, WEST SUSSEX, 1992. VOLUME 1 [ONLY]: Late Upper Palaeolithic-Anglo-Saxon.

Fitzpartick, A.P.; Powell, Andrew B. ; and Allen, Michael J.

ISBN 10: 1874350191 / ISBN 13: 9781874350194

Published by Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury 2008., 2008

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1st edition. Small folio. [xx] + 284pp. B/w. illustrations, maps and diagrams. Original pictorial blue boards lettered in white, small bump to fore-edge of upper board. Wessex Archaeology Report No.21. ISBN 9781874350194 US$15.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS ON THE ROUTE OF THE A27 WESTHAMPNETT BYPASS, WEST SUSSEX, 1992. VOLUME 1 [ONLY]: Late Upper Palaeolithic-Anglo-Saxon.
• Publisher: Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury 2008.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1874350191
• ISBN 13: 9781874350194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • HISTORY, MILITARY & TRANSPORT

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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.

About the Author

Michael J. Allen is an environmental archaeologist and geoarchaeologist specialising in the archaeology of the chalklands. He has run Allen Environmental Archaeology for over 15 years, providing archaeological science and geoarchaeology to the university, research and commercial archaeological communities. He is a visiting research fellow at Bournemouth University and contributes to the lecturing of Applied Landscape Archaeology at University of Oxford (continuing education).