Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
During the autumn of 1946 a hoard of bronzes was discovered during excavation for foundations in the bottom of a down-land valley in the parish of Sompting, near Worthing. The site is a point approximately 300 ft. north-east of Hill Barn and 1,500 ft. south-west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring, and is on property belonging to Hill Barn Nurseries. The bronzes were unearthed by a mechanical excavator at a depth of about 5 ft. in a valley-bottom accumulation of brown clayey mould. How much of this material is natural hill-wash and how much the result of cultivation of the valley in ancient and modern times it would be difficult to say. The depth at which the bronzes were found suggests that some of the soil may have been ploughed down into the valley bottom at a later period.
page 157 note 1 6 in. O.S., LXIV, NE., 11·3 in. from left margin, and 3·7 in. from lower margin. The Hill of the same name situated half a mile to the ENE. Barn in question is to be distinguished from a barn in the parish of North Lancing.
page 157 note 2 Arch, lxxx (1930), 12.
page 161 note 1 Or else from a cylindrical vessel, if such existed, made up of overlapping plates.
page 161 note 2 Arch, lxxi, 135.
page 163 note 1 e.g. two hoards from Worthing listed in my Arch. Sussex, pp. 220–1.