Excavations at the site of the former airfield at Ford, West Sussex revealed evidence of a prehistoric and Roman settlement dating from the beginning of the 1st millennium BC to the 2nd century AD. The incomplete plan of a sub-rounded enclosure dating to the early 1st millennium BC was recovered, as was a substantial assemblage of later Bronze Age pottery with associated C14 dates. Indications that the area had been enclosed by the late Bronze Age were also found - notably ditched trackways and contemporary field boundaries. The enclosure was subsequently used for limited cremation burial in the later Iron Age, and a new co-axial field system was set out during this period on a different alignment to its predecessor. A sub-rectangular enclosure was discovered, dating to the first century AD. Evidence points towards only limited activity in the second century AD, and limited iron working in the final phase.

Excavations at Ford Airfield, Yapon, West Sussex, 1999

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Place, Chris

Archaeology

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Excavations at Ford Airfield, Yapon, West Sussex, 1999