A guided tour of the Newmarket Farm dig site has now been planned for 10am, Saturday 2nd November 2013! By popular request it will also be given on Sunday 3rd November. Full details are given below. The Newmarket Farm was just an ‘out-farm’ of Kingston near Lewes, built in 1830, and destroyed during allied exercises […]
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We continued excavating the small woodstore, or “cubby-hole” as a former tenant described it, on the east side of the gable frontage of the cottage. And, at the bottom of its 0.5m deep fill of demolition rubble, we came across a ‘shed load’ of finds! It was only about 1m wide and a more or […]
A really nice day, digging the drain, shed and north east corner of the kitchen/scullery, on the east side of the north gable front of the house. Our retired plumber/volunteer digger confirmed that the salt glazed stoneware gully drain had a trap to collect sediment at its base. Further excavation to its east quickly revealed […]
Friday the 13th, and a miserable drizzly day, but that didn’t stop us digging for “something nasty in the woodshed“! The first target of the day was the beautifully preserved concrete gully which fed into the salt glazed stoneware ‘gully drain’. Situated directly outside the kitchen/washhouse window, the most likely location for the kitchen sink, […]
Friday’s dig was cancelled because of rain, but luckily the showers on Sunday, though spectacular, were short enough for us to get some good digging done. Between the front door and the wood shed, directly outside the kitchen window, Peggy’s oldest sister clearly remembers there was a well. So when we succeeded in clearing […]
A relatively quiet day – archaeologically speaking. Cleaning up the grid squares surrounding the 1x1m area where we most expected the opening to a water tank may have been in front of the house. This enabled us to better see the contours of the original ground surface and identify the possibilities of an approximately 6’x6′ […]
To put things simply – our dig has gone down the drain – and some really nice finds were recovered out of it! Our main objective for this part of the dig is the location of a reported ‘well’. So the excavated area in front of the house was extended by 1x1m – midway between […]
A sunny day, with some archaeological ups and downs. We worked on both ends of a 1x3m trench which was 2m south of the front garden gate, the southern most 1m of which was over the front wall of the house. The main purpose of this trench was to find the ‘well’ which the last […]
A sunny day for our 4 volunteers, some nice finds, ‘aerial’ photographs of the site, and a little closer to finding the Latham family’s well. On arrival we met people working on the tall TV/mobile/emergency services communications aerial which dominates the top of the hill a little over a hundred metres from our site. They […]
A sunny day, a visit from John Funnel – Brighton & Hove Archaeological Society’s head of field archaeology – and good archaeology. Wow! Just about all of the west side of the house has now been excavated, a small area of the farmyard, and a large part of the front garden, with its associated structures. […]
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