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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
For many years ever-increasing reports of Roman buildings and other finds from the neighbourhood of the village of New Fishbourne, one mile west of Chichester, have indicated the existence of an extensive early Roman settlement in the area (fig. 1). Early in 1960, during the construction of a water main across fields to the north of the main Chichester-Portsmouth road, a trench was cut through a Roman building which was found to incorporate massive masonry blocks and a mosaic floor. The pottery from the trench was predominantly first century. Accordingly, the Chichester Civic Society arranged a three-week trial excavation at Easter 1961, on the results of which further excavations were undertaken during the period 22nd July to 31st August. The work was made possible by generous grants from the Chichester Corporation, the Ministry of Works, the Society of Antiquaries, the Haverfield Trustees, the Marc Fitch Fund, the Sussex Archaeological Society, and by the public's response to the appeal. Nine students, mainly from Cambridge and Oxford, were employed throughout the excavations.
page 17 note 1 I should like to express my thanks to the many people who helped in the excavation, particularly to Mr. S. S. Frere, F.S.A., for help and advice given during the excavation and the preparation of this report, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Rule for organising the camp and many other tasks including lifting a mosaic, to Mr. D. B. Baker who undertook the photography, to Miss F. A. Dunn who was in charge of pottery and finds, and to the supervisors Messrs. G. H. Brown, A. B. Norton, J. Saunders, B.A., M. Todd, B.A., and J. P. Wild, B.A.
page 17 note 2 The land belongs to Mr. F. Ledger by whose kind permission the work took place.
page 18 note 1 It is, of course, possible that the west wing returns not far west of the excavation and that the mosaic found beneath the greenhouse belongs to another- building. This point should be clarified next year.
page 18 note 2 The block at the north-east corner and the block south of it were both originally cut for another purpose and re-used in the stylobate. Both have clamp and lewis holes.
page 19 note 1 Sectiles of similar type were found in the first-century bath-house at Angmering, Sussex Arch. Colls, lxxix, 3–44. They are otherwise very infrequent in this country.
page 19 note 2 Blake, Marion E., Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, viii (1930), 44.Google Scholar
page 19 note 3 It may be, however, that the space between these rooms was filled by a small room equivalent to room 4.
page 20 note 1 The different treatment of the two parts of the northern wing and the construction of two separate bath-buildings may indicate that in the third period the building was divided between two tenants.
page 20 note 2 Certain features of this floor—namely the lack of a red tesselated border and its rather finer work manship—suggest that it may belong to the second period. When the room is cleared it may be possible to excavate below it to check this point.
page 23 note 1 Also the Roman villa at Angmering, the bath-house of which is given a first-century date. Sussex Arch. Colls, lxxix.
page 23 note 2 ‘Is ad nostram usque memoriam fidissimus mansit,’ Tacitus, Agricola 14.
page 23 note 3 Vitruvius iv, 5, 2, 5.