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Excavations at Fishbourne, 1967: Seventh and Final Interim Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Extract

The last major season in the present series of excavations at Fishbourne took place between 29th July and 2nd September, with a labour force restricted to sixty volunteers a day. This year the main effort was concentrated upon the excavation of the garden belonging to the Flavian Palace: a substantial area was examined during the main period of work, but it was not until the early spring that the final stages were completed by a small team of volunteers working in conjunction with a mechanical excavator. Several other areas were examined during the summer. By great good fortune a small site became available for study on the south side of the modern main road, providing for the first time clear evidence that the Palace possessed a South Wing. On the main site, the east front of the aisled hall was excavated together with the early levels beneath it, and further work was undertaken on the west front of the entrance hall. Finally, some time was spent finishing details of the excavation of the area lying north of the West Wing and west of the North Wing—a site which in the previous spring had been almost totally excavated, prior to the building of the site Museum and concourse.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1968

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References

page 31 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xlv (1965), 23Google Scholar, and xlvii (1967), 51–2.

page 33 note 1 Ibid., xlv (1965), 2–3.

page 34 note 1 Gents. Mag. 1805 (ii), 926–7Google Scholar.

page 35 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xlvii (1967), 57Google Scholar.

page 36 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xlvi (1966), 35–6Google Scholar.

page 36 note 2 Ibid., xlvii (1967), 58.

page 36 note 3 In ibid., xlvii (1967), 55, it was suggested that the projecting masonry represented a change in structural arrangement in the north-west corner. This view no longer seems tenable.

page 38 note 1 For earlier description and suggested interpretation, Antiq. Journ. xlvi (1966), 33Google Scholar.

page 38 note 2 This work also allowed slight inaccuracies of planning to be corrected.