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| Name: | Beacon Hill, Rottingdean : ?AS burial |
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| HER Ref: | MES7278 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Designations - none recorded
Summary
Inhumation found during the building of the windmill. Likely relates to another Saxon burial to the south, indicating a cemetery
Monument Types
- INHUMATION (Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
Description
On the 7th June 1802 the Sussex Weekly Advertiser informed its readers that when labourers were digging foundations for the brick base of a smock mill on Beacon Hill at Rottingdean, they unearthed 'the skeleton of an ancient warrior and a sword.' When the labourers returned after lunch both items had disappeared.[1]
Bronze Age/Iron Age burial site of warrior discovered during foundation digging in 1800's. Remains Missing/ [2]
Sources
| <1> | Newspaper: 1749-1901. Sussex Weekly Advertiser. |
| <2> | Correspondence: Pers. Comm. (written). Crispin Kirkpatrick, Local Nature Researve Officer (April 2005). |
Associated Events - none recorded
Associated Monuments - none recorded
Associated Finds - none recorded
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