More information : Area TQ 276 072 See Map Diagram: LBA - Roman occupation (including a basilican Ro villa associated with 11 corn drying kilns) found during building operations and excavated 1947-9. (Published site of Ro villa on OS 6" at TQ 2752 0729 incorrect). (1-2)
BRONZE AGE: Two sites of LBA occupation:-
A: TQ 2760 0712: An "oval cooking place" in natural clay with c 3/4 cwt of pottery, charcoal and animal bones overlaid by a thick layer of pot boilers, and to the north, an LBA pot containing flint chippings etc in a small cavity in the subsoil.
B: TQ 2761 0705: At least two storage vessels in scoop cavities; two bronze palstaves and a broken winged axe were found when a water main trench was dug. A short ditch or gully contained many fragments of LBA pottery. Stray finds of the period included two barbed and tanged flint arrowheads and scrapers.
IRON AGE: Four rectangular pits (4, 5, 21 & 23) were associated with Iron Age A1 AB and BC pottery. Contents also included daub and minor finds.
C1 AD OCCUPATION EXTENDING INTO RO PERIOD: Ditches (DEF) were dated C1 BC-AD and cut by an RB ditch. A late C1 inurned cremation (BS1) was found at TQ 2759 0711. Pits 6-16, 22 & 24 (? storage pits) were associated with a possible working floor.
C2-C4 AD: A basilican villa (TQ 2751 0723) was dated C3-C4.
A series of 11 corn drying ovens C2 and early C3 were associated with ditches (probable road or field boundaries) and one was overlaid by C3-C4 occupation floors.
A RB hut floor or workshop (TQ 2762 0716) contained iron tools, C2-C3 or C4 pottery etc. Burial site 3 (TQ 2756 0711) comprised three groups of cremations. Other finds include a NE/EBA chipped flint axe. Pottery finds in Hove Museum. (3)
No trace of LBA - Ro occupation, the area occupied by housing development. Find is store at Hove Public Library (No acc nos). (4)
EA 25 Listed as the site of a Roman villa. (5)
|