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HISTORY of SUSSEX

 

 

Part 2: K to z

 

Abbreviations

c.                     circa: approximate location

C.                    century

EBA                Early Bronze Age

IA                    Iron Age

LBA                Late Bronze Age

MBA               Middle Bronze Age

Med                 Medieval

Mes                  Mesolithic

N                       Neolithic

P                      Palaeolithic

PN                    Place-name

R                       Roman/Romano-British

S                       Saxon

 

 

SUSSEX (E) and (W) refer to the Eastern and Western parts of the County 

 

Kingston Buci

(W). EBA 'B' beaker occupation; LBA '2B' occupation, bucket urns, IA 'A1', 'B', 'ABC', South-eastern 'B' and R pottery, all at 233059 and nearby; R building 231053; R occupation 225065; barrow 225066; Celtic fields 227082.

Kingston near Lewes

(E). S inhumation cemetery, 'Saxonbury'; PN Castle Hill 375073.

Kirdford

(W). IA (Wealden culture?) fort, iron-smelting refuse, 979295; R occupation c. 005277.

Lancing

(W). MBA collared urns and pigmy cups; LBA '2B' ware; IA occupation site, 'A1' (haematite-coated ware),'A2','C' and South-eastern'B' (Patch Grove and related ware) 188065; Romano-Celtic temple and burials c. 180067; S inhumations, Hoe Court House.

Lavant

(W). N flint mines (R finds) 870098 etc.; Belgic3 linear earthworks 845080 etc., 874088 etc, and 862075 etc.; earthworks 873099.

Lewes

(E). MBA hoard; MBA overhanging-rim urns; LBA founder's hoard; R burials, Cuckoo Bottom; S? burials: weapons; S? promontory fort (largely destroyed) 414104; Med castle mounds 414102 and 414103; Med salt refinery? 416097; platform and disc barrows (damaged) 402110; barrows 398103 etc.; Museums: Barbican House and Town Hall.

Linchmere

(W) (870310). R coin-hoard, late 3C.

Lindfield

(E). PN Shotenbury 13C.; PN Kiln Wood 344264.

Litlington

(E). P implement; N long barrow 536007; LBA 'A2' to IA 'A1' occupation with associated Celtic fields, double lynchet way and cross-ridge dykes 542019 etc.; Celtic fields 540015; barrows 538011 etc.; PN Old Kiln Bottom (lime kiln?) 540015.

Littlehampton

(W). LBA winged axe; R building and burials c. 030020; R occupation, ditches, Wickbourne Estate; Museum Maltravers Rd.

Little Horsted

(E). Late IA pottery making (including South-eastern 'B' ware with Wealden culture influence); IA ironworking; R occupation (ironworking?) 462173.

Lodsworth

(W) (930230). Med glass-making, Sandpits.

Lower Beeding

(W). Mes sites c. 220260 and Beeding Wood; MBA hoard; ironworking (c. PN's Furnace Pond 230253 and Hammerpond 220290); PN Kilnwood 227355.

Lullington

(E). LBA 'A3' to IA 'A1' (transition) occupation 541019; Celtic fields, tracks and cross-ridge dyke 545020 etc.; barrows 544025 etc.; strip lynchets 534028; Med deserted village? 528030. 

Lurgashall

(W). Mes site c. 917300; PN Barfold 14C. (from burh) 934311; PN Castle Copse 17C.

Madehurst

(W). Celtic fields c. 985090; bivallate earthwork 979086 etc.; PN Madehurst 12C., means 'speech-wood', referring to moot-site 958133 of the two western rapes of Sussex.

Marden

(W), including East, West, North and Up Marden. N long barrow, Bevis's Thumb, 789154; MBA collared urn; R house and R mound nearby, 774126; R house, Up Marden.

Maresfield

(E). Late IA ironworking 473304; R ironworking 473304 and 475267; Celtic fields 473304; later ironworking (cf. PN Old Forge 460259); PN Brick Kiln Farm 440322.

Mayfield

(E). PN Isenhurst 13C· ('ironwood') 565231, Med ironworking.

Middleton

(W) (980000). LBA hoard; R occupation.

Midhurst

(W) (8852I5). P implement; Med castle mound, St. Anne's Hill. 

Mountfield

(E). LBA gold hoard; ironworking (cf. PN Darwell Furnace 710207). 

New Barn Down

. See Patching. 

Newhaven

(E). P implement; N Peterborough ware; LBA hoard, carpenter's kit; LBA '2B', IA 'A1' and 'A2', IA (Wealden culture), IA (South-Eastern 'B') IA 'ABC' and R occupation on site of destroyed IA hill-fort, Castle Hill 445000; R house; R occupation c. 445003; two R coin-hoards, late 3C.

Newtimber

(W). LBA occupation c. 268110; Belgic? occupation c. 268110; R occupation c. 270125; S inhumations and a cremation c. 268110; barrows 270111 and 270120 (ploughed).

North Chapel

(W) (950290). Mes site; ironworking.

Northiam

(E). Ironworking; 16C. glassmaking; PN Dixter 13C., 817253 (from díc, 'ditch').

North Mundham

(W). Roccupation; PN Brinfast 7C., 860998 (from faestenn, 'stronghold').

North Stoke

(W). PN Camp Hill 036112. 

Nuthurst

(W). Med earthworks 180270. 

Ore

(E). R road 818130 etc.

Oving

(W) (900050). P implement. 

Ovingdean

(E). MBA overhanging-rim urn; R cremation; barrow 357046.

Pagham

(W). R occupation; S pottery 884975; PN Wada's barrow in 7C. charter.

Parham

(W). Barrows 059126 etc.; Med deserted village? c. 059141. 

Park Brow

. See Sompting.

Patcham

(Brighton). Mes site 288081; EBA 'B' beaker inhumation 323087; LBA gold hoard; R house c. 330070; R cremations; barrows (including a disc type?) 313102 (destroyed); Celtic fields 318097 etc.; earthworks and lynchets near Eastwick Barn; earthworks, Ewe Bottom; ancient pond 328088. S cremation c. 330070. 

Patching

(W). N occupation, Windmill Hill pottery and implements; N/EBA flintmines, Blackpatch 094089 etc. (ploughed): Beaker burials in shafts; MBA cremations in collared urns under barrows; LBA '2A' farmstead (henge-site? re-used) c. 097103; LBA enclosures, circular huts and fields 092092; LBA enclosures 089097; LBA '2B' farmstead enclosure and fields 084090; LBA, IA 'A' and 'A2' pottery 084092; IA South-eastern 'B' ware; R pottery 092092; barrows contemporary with some flint-mine shafts 094089 (ploughed); ancient track 089073.

Peacehaven

(E) (410010). Mes site on Woolwich Beds (sand).

Penhurst

(E). Med shrunken settlement? 695165; ironworking until A.D. 1811. 

Petworth

(W) (980220). Ironworking. Pevensey (E). R fort of Saxon shore, occupation in 5C., 644048; earthwork of A.D. 1577-8 within fort.

Piddinghoe

(E). N long barrow, Money Burgh (beorg) 425037; IA pottery., many sites; R burials 415029; Med deserted hamlet, at the Lydds, 439029?; strip lynchets? 427026 etc. and 426038 etc.; ancient track? 432026 etc.

Playden

(E). Mes site 921227; M/LBA site, ring-ditch and rectangular enclosure 921226; PN's Saltcote and Saltbarn, medieval saltpans near, 927221'. 

Plumpton

(E). EBA 'B' beaker sherd c. 358122; LBA hoard; LBA '2A' farmstead (Site A) 358122: huts, enclosures and contemporary fields; LBA '2B' farmstead (Site B), hut-sites and ?fields, finds of winged axe, bucket and barrel urn sherds; LBA? enclosures c. 351120; rectangular enclosures 353125; Celtic fields 355114 etc.; barrows 370127 etc.; cross-ridge dykes 368126 etc.

Portslade

(E). P implement; MBA hoard; IA hoard of bronze objects; R building 259085; R occupation and Celtic fields 245097 etc.; R cremations 251053; barrows 239091 etc.; PN Portslade 11C., 'Port's road', a R or earlier trackway 260067 etc.

Poynings

(E). N axe of igneous rock; EBA 'B' beaker inhumation 260103; E/MBA crouched inhumation, 'Black Burgh' (beorg) c. 264101; MBA contracted inhumation, 'Blade Burgh' (beorg), destroyed c. 256109; IA 'A2' promontory fort 'The Devil's Dyke' 256108 etc.; IA farmstead, 'ABC' and South-eastern 'B' pottery 258108; R occupation near 256108; Med? rectangular cattle enclosure 266113; barrows 258094 etc.; PN Bostal Rd., 13C· (from burhsteall, i.e.'The Dyke'?). 

Preston

(E). R house 309057; R burials; S burials.

Pulborough

(W). Mes site; EBA? flint dagger factory; R house c. 069200; R temple 043188; R mausoleum 066190; R buildings 047187, 057188 and 0731873 Norman castle mound? 038189; ancient pond 062188; earthworks c. 077177 and c. 070170; PN Pulborough 11C. from beorg, 'hill'; PN Brinsbury 12C., 067223; PN Borough Farm 13C., 069202; PN Toat Hill 14C., 050217,'look-out point'. 

Pyecombe

(E). IA 'A1' hill-fort, ditch within bank, Wolstonbury 284138; R settlement, late in R period, 286138; Med deserted village c. 293127; disc barrow 284135; earthwork enclosure 266103; earthwork? 284136 etc.

Rackham

(W). Barrows tone of IA) 059126 etc.; cross-ridge dyke and terraceways, 051125 etc.

Racton

Med deserted village? 779093; Med shrunken village, Lordington 783097·

Ringmer

(E). R road 431140; S inhumations; Med castle mound 449144; earthwork c. 456112; PN Harrowdown 14C.-pagan S shrine; Ringmer was the meeting place of a hundred; PN Broyle 13C. 'park', boundary bank? 478128; PN Delves 447126, clay pits? for late 13C. pottery kiln in Potters Field nearby.

Ripe

(E). R occupation 506104 ('The Burghs'); R occupation 499109; ditch 501110; field-name, Goldhord 15C., 501105. 

Rodmell

(E). IA or S grave-mound cluster c. 411055; R cremations 395050; barrows 404058 etc.

Rogate

(W). PN Brickkiln Copse 801265 (but modern brick-works near). 

Rotherfield

(E). IA ( Wealden culture) hillfort, Saxonbury (Sockbury 16C.) 577329: an oval stone enclosure superseded by small hill-fort; IA and later ironworking (cf. PN Forge Farm and Minepit Wood c. 523335); PN Owlsbury 528281; PN Brick Kiln Wood 580295.

Rottingdean

(E). P implements, Acheulian; N long barrow? c. 366026; EBA to LBA pottery c. 378060; MBA merchant's hoard; MBA cremation in overhanging-rim urn; MBA overhanging-rim urn 379060; LBA? hoard; late IA pottery (South-Eastern 'B') c. 385025; R coinhoard, late 3C.; ancient pond 378043; PN Younsmere 13C·, probably c. 355063, hundred moot-site in old pit; barrows, 371054; Museum, Grange House. 

Rumboldswyke

(W). R finds; R brick in church? 870041; R? road c. 859040 etc.

Rusper

(W). Mes site c. 218343. Rustington (W) (050020). LBA gold hoard; R occupation.
Rye (E). Med 13C. pottery kilns; PN Cadborough 009198 (from beorg,'hill'). St Leonard's (E). IMBA founder's hoard.

Salehurst

(E). I6C. ironworking, Robertsbridge.

Seaford

(E). Mes site (on sand of Woolwich Beds) c. 487986; EBA? barrow 494978; IA 'A2' hill-fort (eroded by sea) 495978; R occupation and IA South-eastern 'B' pottery 490986; R occupation 4959973 R cremation cemetery 494505; Med saltpans on coast; Med deserted village, Sutton, 494997; PN Chesterton (modern?) 499993; PN Camp Hill 495014.

Seddlescombe

(E). N stone axes; IA and R iron bloomery c. 772200 (finds included painted South-eastern 'B' and Wealden culture wares); R road 779197 etc.; late S/early Norman pottery, Coombe Wood. 

Selham

(W). Prehistoric or Med mound 933210.

Selmeston

(E). Mes, N (Peterborough), LBA (bucket urn sherd) and IA occupation 514069; S occupation 514069. 

Selsey

(W). P implements; N occupation: Windmill Hill, Abingdon and Peterborough wares; MBA hoard; LBA '2', IA 'A1','AB', Belgic and R occupation 858942; Belgic mint? and oppidum? (eroded by sea); R coin-hoard, late 3C.; R settlement, several sites in parish including 872958 and c. 871957; S village (destroyed) 840934; earthwork 872958; mound? c. 871957.

Shermanbury

(W). PN Sh. means 'burh of the shireman' 11C.: site of S domestic burh?; Med hundred-moot 236202. 

Shipley

(W). R occupation c. 123226; Norman castle mound and moat 163208; PN Brickkiln Farm 158242; Med hundredmoot at Slaughterbridge (i.e. sloetreebridge).

Shoreham

(W). EBA 'B' beaker inhumation c. 223069; IA 'A1' defended farm (ploughed) 229084; IA 'A2',' B ', Wealden and R occupation, R cremations 222069; R farmstead with corn-drying ovens 232083; R burials 222067; R, very.late, degenerate hand-made pottery 2220833 S inhumations 214067; Med shrunken hamlet?  Erringham 205077; Celtic fields 227083 etc.; strip lynchets overlying Celtic fields c. 231084 etc.; PN Thundersbarrow and Thunder's Steps 230080 may represent a development of OE Thunor (as in Thundersley, Essex) and indicate a pagan S shrine.

Sidlesham

(W). LBA founder's hoard, including winged axe; R house 854970; R house and ditch, Lamb Lea; R occupation 854984 and 860971; R road? 854000 etc.
(cf. PN Street End 17C· 853995). 

Singleton

(W). N causeway camp, Windmill Hill ware 877111; IA'A1' hill-fort, 'A1', 'A2', 'B' and 'AB' pottery, 'The Trundle' 877111; earthwork 874114 etc. 

Slaugham

(E). Ironworking (cf. PN Furnace Pond); PN Ditton 284298 (from díc?).

Slindon

(W). P implements from 100 ft. ancient shoreline c. 951083, Abbevillean, Clactonian and Acheulian: Acheulian occupation site on ancient sea beach; R road, Stane St., agger, 950113 etc.; earthworks 979088 etc.

Slinfold

(W). R posting-station on Stane St. at Alfoldean (this PN 'old fold' must refer to the R defensive earthwork) 117330; R settlement 116327 etc.; R bridge site 118331; PN Toat Hill 14C·, 123298,'lookout point'.

Sompting

. EBA, two 'B' beaker inhumations; EBA 'A' beaker c. 152090; MBA hoard; LBA '2A' farmstead, bucket and globular urns, 153086; IA 'A1' and 'A2' farmstead and fields, inurned cremation; 'B', 'AB', 'ABC' and South-eastern 'B' ware, 154087; R farmstead 154087; R house, wattle and daub 158086; R occupation 151082; R road as terraceway 160055 etc.; IA? terraceway 173068 etc.; crossridge dyke 168077; circular earthwork used as pond; R finds; LBA hoard. 

South Heighton

(E). MBA overhanging-rim urn with cremation in chalk cist; LBA hoard; S inhumation; R road, agger, c. 467034; barrow (destroyed!) 448033. 

South Malling

(E). N long barrow 431110; MBA (Wessex or related culture) barrow, faïence pendant etc., two cinerary urns; IA 'A2' unfinished promontory fort, Ranscombe 439092: South-eastern 'B' and R pottery and occupation debris; R occupation 428093; R cremations; S inhumation cemeteries, 428111 and c. 413110; barrows 434109 etc.; Celtic fields 436103 etc.; strip lynchets 436103 etc.; Med? earthwork enclosures, c. 437101 and ?439097; double lynchet way 435104; early 19C. cultivation 436103 etc.; disused 18C. coach road 423113 etc.

Southwick

(W). R house 243055; R farmstead, fields and track c. 245084; Med hundred-moot 248050.

Stanmer

(E). R occupation, hut, ditches, inhumations etc., Rocky Clump; barrows 343114 etc.; ancient pond 338095.

Stedham

(W). R road 849210 etc.; barrows 853215 etc.; PN Harrowdown 14C. (site unknown), pagan S shrine; PN Tote Hill 864247, look-out point.

Steyning

(W). EBA beaker inhumation in barrow 166099; LBA cremation cemetery, secondary interments in a barrow with one MBA collared urn 166099; IA 'ABC' ware; R occupation 179114 and elsewhere; R? terraceways 167102 etc.; cross-ridge dykes 163103 etc.; barrows 159108 etc.; earthwork 153110; FN Heathen Burials 13C· c. 182106.

Stopham

(W) (027189). Mes site. 

Storrington

(W). MBA cremation in collared urn in barrow; LBA farmstead c. 080118; IA? fields c. 080118; IA South eastern 'B' pottery 079135; R occupation 080126, 078117 and elsewhere; R occupation, Celtic fields, bivallate and double lynchet road 078117; R road c. 070169 etc.; cross-ridge dyke and terraceway 084126 etc.; barrows 078126 etc.; rectangular earthwork c. 080118.

Stoughton

(W). N long barrows 822122 and 824121; N flint mines? 825109; R house c. 738100; Romano-Celtic temple? c. 820110 (R coins, barbarous types); S barrow cluster (destroyed?) c. 820110, interments include a cremation; earthworks including cross-dykes 110818 etc.; bell barrows (including one of twin type) with MBA cremations in overhanging-rim urns - also bowl and pond? barrows 825110; barrows 820112 etc.; earthwork enclosure 826116; earthworks, Gobblestubbs Copse. 

Streat

(E). Mes site c. 350150; R road, agger, 350154 etc. (cf. PN Streat 11C.). 

Sullington

(W). MBA barrows (damaged) c. 096145: overhanging-rim urns and others; barrows 108120 etc. and 091119 etc.; cross-ridge dykes 105119 etc. and 095124; PN Easewrithe 11C.'Thicket of the gods', site of hundred-moot land earlier pagan S shrine? Cf. PN Mutton 119149 (ge-mòt-tùn?) near intersection of tracks and parish boundaries).

Sutton

(W). LBA sherd in ditch of cross ridge dyke 955135; barrows 962128. 

Tangmere

(W) (902062). PN Berryfield 15C.  (nearby was Beryhamme 13C.). 

Tarring Neville

(E). Barrow 447033; strip lynchet? 440039 etc.

Telscombe

(E). EBA 'A' beaker inhumation from barrow (destroyed) 402031; MBA cremations as secondary interments in barrow: overhanging-rim urns, 402031; IA 'A' pottery c. 400043; IA pits, South-eastern 'B' pottery c. 402031; R occupation,397045. 

Terwick

(W). Med shrunken village? 819235.

Thakeham

(W). R road, agger, c. 100157 etc.; S hut, 8C. and Med 12C. pottery. 

Ticehurst

(E). Late IA ironworking 663294; R ironworking 663294; later ironworking (cf. Old Forge Farm 680338 and Hammerden 13C. 661271); PN Whiligh (from wìg) 11C., 657313, pagan S shrine?; PN Brickkiln Farm 678301. 

Tillington

(W). PN Rotherbridge 11C., 966203, meeting-place of hundred. 

Treyford

(W). MBA cremations in bell barrows (six in all), 'The Devil's Jumps', 825173.

Trotton

(W). Mes. site c. 843223; R occupation (earthwork?) 836286; PN Dumpford 11C., 830218, meeting-place of hundred.

Trundle

. See Singleton.

Uckfield

(4752I5)· Ironworking. 

Upper Beeding

. Mes site c. 220130; IA and R occupation 188115; R barrow c. 213097; barrow 215100; Celtic fields 228102 etc.; strip lynchets 207099 etc. 

Up Waltham

(W). Barrows (including one of bell type) 947126 and 928145; strip lynchets 942140; Med shrunken village? 942138; for moot-site see Madehurst. 

Wadhurst

(E). Ironworking (cf. PN Old Forge Farm 16C., 680338).

Walberton

(W). R cist burials 977066; R brick in church 972057; Med shrunken village? Binsted c. 982060; PN Avisford 13C., 978066, site of hundred-moot. 

Waldron

(E). MBA merchant's hoard; Med moated site 544192; ironworking. 

Warbleton

(E) (610180). Ironworking. Warnham (W) (160335). Mes site; Med fishponds?

Wartling

(E). PN Puddledock 17C. 666107; PN Rat's Castle, Med? cattle refuge against floods in the marshes!

Washington

(W). IA hill-fort, Chanctonbury, 139121; R occupation near Owlscroft Barn; R road 125146 etc.; Romano-Celtic temple 139121 (probably the 'stone temple' of a 10C. charter); barrows 132121 etc. and 112121 etc.; four cross-ridge dykes 108119 etc, and 134121; ancient track 122105 etc.; Celtic fields 111118; PN Longbury (beorg,'hill'?); PN's in 10C. charter: lidgeardes beorg, Tateman's burial-place; Hatheburg's barrow (hlàw), stone hill or barrow (beorg) and bennan beorg (near Clayton Farm?).

West Blatchington

(E). LBA occupation and hoard (including winged axe) 275074; IA 'A1' occupation, pit and ditches, IA 'AB', South-eastern 'B', Wealden culture?, and R occupation, all 275074; R farm 275074, corn-drying ovens, cremations etc. (site destroyed).

Westbourne

(W). MBA collared urn; R occupation 766055. 

West Chiltington

(W). MBA collared urn c. 08516S; PN Hardbarrow 094168. 

West Dean

(E). P implement; barrow 540994; Med deserted village, Exceat, 522992.

West Dean

(W). IA settlement 830114 etc.; IA 'B'? multivallate cattle enclosure, 'Goosehill Camp' 830126; R occupation 860122, 842109; R aristocratic cist cremation burial c. 835145; R inhumations; R road 847110 etc. Celtic fields, 833116 etc.; Med hundred-moot of Ghidentroi 11C.,'tree of the goddess' (originally a pagan S shrine?), at 847147 or 840152 (Stapleash, the moot marked by a 'stapol'?); PN Brickkiln 825127. 

Westfield

(E). R iron bloomery 784176; R harbour? 815177; R road? 815145; PN Owl's Castle 813166.

West Firle

(E). N long barrow 487058; MBA cinerary urns and incense cup with cremations c. 486059; LBA hoard; late IA farmstead, Wealden, 'ABC' and South-eastern 'B' pottery, 484055; R farmstead 4810493 R causeway 464088; R ways 472048 etc.; R finds in several places; S? inhumations; barrows 462058; Celtic fields 480050 etc.; Med hundred-moot at Totnore 11C. on western boundary of parish; PN Burgh Bridge 477089 (beorg, 'hill'); PN Males Burgh 462058, barrow?; PN Stamford 484081, 15C., R? ford. 

West Grinstead

(W). PN Bowshotts, probably 'shed by the burgh', 13C.; PN Pothill 13C· land Potcommon) 161179. 

Westham

(E). IA South-eastern 'B' pottery; PN Dittons 14C. 602046 ('ditch farm').

Westhampnett

(W). R brick in church 881062; linear earthwork (Belgic?) 874089 etc.; earthwork 875085 etc.

West Hoathly

(E). IA (Wealden?) promontory fort 348322; ironworking. 

Westmeston

(E). IA hill-fort 333130; R road 345154 etc.; R minor way 347153 etc.; barrows 340128 etc.; circular earthwork 335123 etc.; PN Sedlow 343147 (from hlàw).

West Stoke

(W). N/EBA? flint mines 831096; LBA/IA hut and Celtic fields 822106; IA'A' farmstead c. 831096; Belgic? linear earthwork 837080 etc.; R? cist grave; barrows 829105 etc.; linear earthwork 826100 etc.

West Tarring

(W). N flint mines, 137079, late Windmill Hill pottery; EBA 'B' beaker inhumations in barrows c. 137079; IA 'A1' undefended settlement 140080; IA 'A2' contour hill-fort, Cissbury, 1400080: IA 'A2' and 'B' (Marnian), Wealden, 'ABC' and South-eastern 'B' pottery. The hill-fort was under plough in the late IA: Celtic fields 140080 etc.; R farmstead I40080; late R re-fortification of Cissbury; barrows c. 141075 and c. 140094; rectangular enclosures c. 140081; strip lynchets 141076 (Vineyard Hill). 

West Thorney

(W). Med? salt-making sites; PN Stanbury 770031.

Whitehawk

. See Brighton.

Wiggenholt

(W). R house 064175; R occupation 071161 and 068168; R road c.
060171 etc.; R coin-hoard, late 3C. 

Willingdon

(E) (590025). IA burial with Belgic pot; S inhumation cemetery, Willingdon Hill; S cremation cemetery, Hampden Pk.

Wilmington

(E). N long barrow, Hunter's Burgh 550036; N? flint mines? 544034; LBA founder's hoard; R occupation, Endlewick; barrows 540035 etc. (one of platform type) 545034; Celtic fields (destroyed?) c. 536038; hill figure, 'The Long Man', 543035; Med deserted hamlet? Endlewick (earthworks survive). 

Wisborough Green

(W) (050260). Early modern period: ironworking and glassmaking.

Wiston

(W). IA hill-fort, Chanctonbury, 140120; R building 147135; R tile-kiln 157136; R occupation 148143; barrows 144114 etc. and 139121; earthworks 143117 and 158122 etc.; Med deserted village c. 155124.

Withyham

(E) (490360). Med? ironworking.

Wittering

, East and West (W). Belgic gold coin-hoard; R cremations c. 775982; R road? Acre St.-Nunnington-Snow Hill (cf. field-name Street Field c. 779986); R gold coin-hoard, late 4C.; PN Hundredsteddle, 816988, probable site of hundred-moot.

Woodmancote

(W). PN Bylsborough 13C· (beorg)230163.

Woolbeding

(W). Barrow? 876257. Worth (E). Med hundred-moot, Burleigh 8C. (burh) 347364; ironworking c. 316377 and 284356 (Furnace Farm); Med? moat and earthworks 295373; earthwork enclosure! 304353; PN Woolborough 13C. (beorg) 280383; PN Kiln Wood 338377.

Worthing

(W). LBA pottery 146056; LBA merchant's hoard and founder's hoard (including a winged axe); R buildings 147030 and c. 134022; R cremations and inhumations; Museum, Chapel Rd. 

Yapton

(W) (980035). LBA hoard.

 

 

 

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