Archaeological Excavations on the Route of the A27 Westhampnett Bypass, West Sussex, 1992: Volume 2: The Late Iron Age, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon cemeteries
A. P. Fitzpatrick
Description
Five excavations were undertaken in advance of construction of the A27 Westhampnett Bypass, near Chichester, West Sussex. Within Area 2, situated on a low hill, were the remains of a Late Iron Age religious site and Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon cemeteries.
The Late Iron Age religious site contained at least 161, largely unurned, cremation burials, mostly grouped around the SE side of a circular space. Around the remainder of the circumference of this space were recorded the remains of pyre sites and pyre-related features, with several small shrines to the east. Spatial organisation and differential distribution of grave goods relating to the age and sec of the buried individuals were identifiable. The site may have been in use for only c.40 years in the 1st century BC.
The Romano-British cremation cemetery did not disturb the earlier site. Only one pyre site was recorded. The 36 graves contained burials which were often urned and comparatively well furnished with grave goods. It may have been used by only one or two families over about a century.
The Anglo-Saxon cemetery was represented by 10 inhumation graves, identified only from 5th-7th century AD artefacts assumed to be grave goods.
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