Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county (1922) (14578510638)

Identifier: sussexarchaeolog63suss (find matches)

Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county

Year: 1922 (1920s)

Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n

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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society

Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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plough for many years, and there is no • tradition of foundations having been met with. It isinteresting to note that in the map referred to, but ; which Ave have not been able to trace, Burpham isi represented as an important place, while Brighthelm- stone does not appear at all. Moat. Three or four hundred yards to the north-west ofGreat Peppering is a moated area10 on the very edge ofl the river marsh, in a meadow known as The Green: Garden; it is approximately sixty yards square, andis surrounded by a moat five yards wide. When the • river is in high flood the moat is filled with water. Thefield, being used as a meadow, has not been dug over,and no objects of interest have been found there, nor ! have we been able to find any record of the building1 that in all probability once existed within the moatedarea. Paleolithic Flint Implements. Mr. Collyer records that paleolithic flint implementsare to be found on the surface of the field immediately ; 10 6 O.S., L., S.W., 12-3-5-2.

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NOTES ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF BURPHAM, ETC. 7 •to the north of wThe Green Garden. It is probablethat the ovate of late St. Acheul type, which he foundat Burpham (Plate II., fig. 4), came from here. Thisimplement is 3 inches long by 2\inches wide; and its edgesare fairly sharp, for it has not been rolled. One side iscurved like a reversed S. The patina is ochreous, anda whitish film has formed on the surface, giving thewhole a pinkish colour. This colour Mr. ReginaldSmith, of the British Museum, connects with the plateaurather than with a terrace gravel, and from thefrequency with which St. Acheul II. ovates, with thispatina, are found in plateau gravels, he has suggestedthe dating of the last deposit of this gravel by them.11An early drift implement, of Chellean type, wasfound in the river gravel at South Stoke (Plate II.,fig. 3). It is a rolled palaeolith of the ficron type,4J inches long, and 2 J inches wide, made of poor flint. Palaeolithic flint implements, similar in all respects

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