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Name: | Amberley Castle |
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HER Ref: | MWS4502 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Designations - none recorded
Summary
A watching brief was carried out during construction of two ponds in front of the Castle in 1996. No archaeological features were recorded during stripping for pond construction but to the north an area cleared for spoil tipping revealed two stone spreads, probably hard core from the curtain wall foundations. Sealed by brown clay loam topsoil was a ditch 1.1m wide with a flat bottomed base 0.5m wide, 0.45m deep, cut into the Upper Greensand bedrock. The uniform fill, an olive grey silty clay loam, contained a number of pieces of Roman brick. The profile is untypical of a field boundary ditch of Roman date. Although a date for the ditch in the Roman period is not impossible, the complete absence of other finds of Roman date in the course of the watching brief argues against it. The stone spreads sealed a ditch 1.1m wide in a roughly E-W alignment containing pieces of Roman brick. The ditch was of untypical Roman profile. {1} Activity Reference - 1 = WS610
Monument Types
- SITE (Archaeological Intervention, Unknown date)
Sources
<1> | Bibliographic reference: Southern Archaeology. 1996. Archaeological watching brief, Amberley Castle, W.Sussex. |
Associated Events
Associated Monuments
- MWS4503 - Related to: Amberley Castle, Amberley (Monument)
Associated Finds - none recorded
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