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Excavations at Copse Farm, Oving, West Sussex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2014

Owen Bedwin ,
Robin Holgate ,
P. L. Drewett ,
C. R. Cartwright ,
S. D. Hamilton ,
B. Oldham ,
D. F. Williams ,
K. Brown ,
S. Browne  and
M. B. Roberts
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Owen Bedwin
Affiliation:
Archaeology Section, Planning Department, Essex County Council, Globe House, New Street, Chelmsford
Robin Holgate
Affiliation:
Field Archaeology Unit, Institute of Archaeology, 31–34, Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
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Abstract

Two farmsteads, one of late Iron Age (second-first centuries BC) date and the other dating to the early Romano-British period (first-second centuries AD), were excavated at Copse Farm, Oving. The site is situated within the Chichester dykes on the Sussex/Hampshire Coastal Plain. The Iron Age farmstead produced pottery spanning ‘saucepan’ and ‘Aylesford-Swarling’ traditions, a transition in ceramic production which is poorly understood in Sussex. Information on the agricultural economy and small-scale industries (principally metalworking) practised at this site give an insight into the way the Coastal Plain was settled and exploited at the end of the first millennium BC.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , December 1985 , pp. 215 - 245
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1985

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