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Excavations on Thundersbarrow Hill, Sussex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

E. Cecil Curwen
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In pursuance of its policy of making small exploratory excavations in as many as possible of the prehistoric sites near Brighton, the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Club examined the earthworks on Thundersbarrow Hill during the spring of 1932. This was very largely made possible by generous contributions from numerous individuals as well as from the Sussex Archaeological Society, in addition to which valuable assistance was rendered by Mr. G. P. Burstow, Mr. B. C. Hamilton, Mr. G. Holleyman, Mr. J. D. M. Stuart, and Miss T. Hawkins, in digging, surveying, and washing pottery. Thanks are also due to the land-owner, Mr. F. S. C. Bridger of Hove, and to the tenant, Captain Torr of Little Buckingham, Shoreham, for permission to carry out the work.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 1933 , pp. 109 - 133
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1933

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References

page 109 note 1 See the Report of the Club for 1932.

page 109 note 2 6-in. O.S., Sussex, lxv, NW., and lii, SW.

page 110 note 1 Brighton and Hove Archaeologist, ii (1924), 81–6Google Scholar.

page 110 note 2 See Antiquity, iv, 97–100.

page 110 note 3 This air-photograph is published by permission of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office and of the Director-General of the Ordnance Survey.

page 113 note 1 Sussex Arch. Coll. lxxi, 258.

page 114 note 1 For fuller explanation of these types of field-way, see Sussex Arch. Coll. lxiv, 4, 8–9.

page 114 note 2 Sussex Arch. Coll. lxxii, 185–217.

page 115 note 1 Platform 3 is shown on Gurd and Jacobs's pre-war survey, but has since been completely destroyed by the military trenches.

page 121 note 1 The Greek term ‘hypocaust’ seems neither necessary nor appropriate in reference to a native British furnace designed for drying corn. Surely the English ‘furnace’ is more suitable, especially as the Latin term was fornax (Ovid, Fasti, ii, 525). Similarly ‘stoke-hole’ may be preferred in such cases to ‘praefurnium’.

page 123 note 1 Preserved in the Museum of the Sussex Arch. Soc. at Lewes, among a collection of local datable ox-skulls.

page 123 note 2 Sumner, Heywood, Excavations on Rockbourne Down (Chiswick Press, 1914), p. 24.Google Scholar

page 124 note 1 Pitt Rivers, Excavations, i, 16–18, 29, 30.

page 124 note 2 Op. cit. iii, 82–4.

page 124 note 3 Heywood Sumner, op. cit.

page 124 note 4 Archaeologia, lix, 336, fig. 1.

page 124 note 5 Archaeologia, lxxi, 151–8.

page 124 note 6 Pliny, N.H. xviii, 10.

page 124 note 7 Ovid, Fasti, ii, 519–26; vi, 313–14.

page 125 note 1 Leviticus ii, 14.

page 126 note 1 Pitt Rivers, Excavations, i, 13, 27, 85, and pls. iv and v.

page 128 note 1 Guide to the Silchester Collection, Reading Public Museum (7th ed.), pl. III, no. 22.

page 132 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xii, 13.

page 132 note 2 Sussex Arch. Coll. lxxi, 243.

page 132 note 3 Ibid, lxxii, 191–8.

page 132 note 4 Ibid. 197.

page 133 note 1 Brighton and Hove Archaeologist, ii, 54–6; air-photograph in Sussex County Mag., July 1930, 570–1.