A Romano-British settlement with ovens and field system at Theobalds Road, Wivelsfield, East Sussex

Powell, A. B., Barnett, C., Cooke, N., Mepham, L., Stevens, C. J. and Wyles, S. F. (2015) A Romano-British settlement with ovens and field system at Theobalds Road, Wivelsfield, East Sussex. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 153. pp. 47-61. ISSN 0143-8204

Abstract/Summary

Excavation west of Wivelsfield, East Sussex, revealed part of an early Romano-British settlement. One of the round-houses may have had a non-domestic, possibly ritual, function. The settlement appears to have been subsequently incorporated within a rectilinear arrangement of field/enclosure ditches. Along the edge of one of these ditches were built a series of features interpreted as ovens, of varying form and likely use, from which charred waste from cereal processing and charcoal from coppiced woodland were recovered.