BARCOMBE, EAST SUSSEX: ARCHAEOMAGNETIC DATING REPORT 2002
Author(s): Paul Linford
Investigations by the Mid Sussex Field Archaeological Team and the University College London Field Archaeology Unit (UCLFAU) during 2001 revealed the presence of a large Roman villa at Barcombe near Lewes in East Sussex. Beneath the villa, the remains of earlier occupation was evident, consisting of an earlier masonry building and, prior to this, two timber roundhouses. The archaeological evidence suggested that the roundhouses also dated from the Roman period and revealed that one of them had a fire hardened clay. This floor was sampled for archaeomagnetic analysis to establish a date for its firing and thus help to determine when the roundhouses were occupied. A mean thermoremanent vector of good precision was obtained which dated the last firing of the floor to the latter half of the 2nd century AD, in good agreement with the archaeological dating evidence from the site.
- Report Number:
- 9/2002
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 21
- Keywords:
- Archaeomagnetism
