West Sussex Amateur Archaeology

02/03/2022

WSAA Website of the Week

10. The Megalithic Portal

The top destination for Megaliths and Prehistory worldwide. World-wide Ancient Site Database, Photos and Prehistoric Archaeology News with geolocation:

02/03/2022

Lyminster Metal Finds 2021 (Part 2)

Please leave your comments and suggestions as to what the objects are, what they were used for and where & when they were made.

01/03/2022

WSAA Video of the week

10. Iron Age coins in Britain: new advances through Linked Open Data - Dr Courtney Nimura

01/03/2022

Lyminster Metal Finds 2021 (Part 1)

Please leave your comments and suggestions as to what the objects are, what they were used for and where & when they were made.

21/02/2022

WSAA Book of the Week

10. Beacons in the Landscape 2nd Edition (2021)
Author: Ian Brown
ISBN: ‎978-1911188759
Price: From £20

20/02/2022

Lyminster Ceramic Curiosities (Part 4)
An assortment of sherds from Lyminster (a).

Please leave your comments and suggestions as to what objects the sherds came from and where & when they where made.

19/02/2022

Roman pottery is a common archaeological find and is often used to help date sites. But how was it made?

Vessels were often shaped on wheels before being fired in kilns. Firing was a complicated process and sometimes things didn’t go quite as planned.

These ‘wasters’, found in the Roman kiln at Field 44 are examples of pottery that didn’t survive the heat of the kiln. What do you think went wrong?!

Excavations at Field 44 are being undertaken by archaeologists from MOLA and Cambridge Archaeological Unit as part of the proposed National Highways A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement Scheme managed by Skanska. You can find out more about the scheme here: http://ow.ly/ymoy50HWkJQ

16/02/2022

WSAA Websites of the week

9. Old Sussex Mapped
http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/geo/research/historical/webmap/sussexmap/sussex.html

9a. Open Domesday
https://opendomesday.org/

The first online copy of Domesday Book of 1086: search for your town or village in Domesday Book, find population and tax records, and see the original Domesday folios free online