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The archaeological activities of James Douglas in Sussex between 1809 and 1819 / Malcolm Lyne

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Lyne, M. A. B.
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Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2017.
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1 online resource (vi, 60 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
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Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Copyright Information -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. The Excavations -- 2.1. Long barrow and round barrow at Madehurst, West Sussex excavated on the 5th August 1809. -- Fig.1. Map showing the position of the long barrow on Rewell Hill, Arundel. Scale 1:25,000 -- 2.2. Barrows excavated at Rottingdean in 1812. -- Fig.2. Iron buckle and two Early Saxon pots from Saltdean barrows near Rottingdean. -- Fig.3. Fragment from part-melted cu.alloy vessel from Saltdean barrows., 2.3. Three barrows on the Downs to the north-east of Preston, excavated on the 13th September 1814. -- 2.4. Four barrows at Balls Down (Balsdean) excavated on the 4th March 1815. -- 2.5. A barrow on Fore Hill on the Downs east of Preston excavated 19th June 1815. -- Fig.4. The Reverend Skinner's plan of the barrow cemetery excavated on the 4th March 1815. (c.) The British Library Board Add 33658 f.155. -- 2.6. Five bell barrows excavated on Balls Down 5th October 1815. -- Fig.5. James Douglas's drawing of an inhumation in one of the barrows excavated on the 4th March 1815., 2.7. Barrow on Church Hill, Brighton excavated 21st October 1815. -- Fig.6. James Douglas's plan of part of the Balsdean barrow cemetery. -- Fig.7. The first part of James Douglas's account of the barrow excavation on Church Hill, Brighton with drawing of collared-urn. -- 2.8. Two barrows at Black rock bottom excavated March 1816. -- Fig.8. The second part of the account with drawings of two Early Saxon annular brooches from secondary inhumation. -- Fig.9. Two urns from Black Rock bottom. -- 2.9. Barrows on Iford Down excavated in the spring of 1817., Fig.10. Gold 'bracteate' from Iford Hill barrow. -- 2.10. Miscellaneous. -- 3. Megaliths in the Brighton area -- Fig.11. Water colour from the common-place book showing excavation of a small Saxon barrow north-west of Brighton. -- Fig.12. Sketch from the common-place book of two men, two women and a child attending barrow excavation at an unspecified location near Brighton. -- 3.1.The Goldstone at Hove -- Fig.13. Drawing of the Gold Stone at Hove from the common-place book. -- 3.2. The ?stone circle in Goldstone Bottom to the north of the Goldstone., and Fig.14. Water colour of the Gold Stone from the common-place book. -- 3.3. The barrow cemetery and stones north of St. Nicholas church, Brighton. -- 4. Sussex Placename derivations and miscellania. -- 5. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Fig.15. Panoramic view of barrow cemetery and 'cromlech' on Church Hill made by Skinner looking north from church tower. (c.) The British Library Board Add 33649 f.151. -- Fig.16. View of same barrows looking south-east towards church. (c.) The British Library Board Add 33649 f.145.
Summary
James Douglas (1753-1819) was a polymath, well ahead of his time in both the fields of archaeology and earth-sciences. This text recounts his archaeological and other activities in Sussex during the first two decades of the 19th century.
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1784916498
9781784916497 (electronic bk.)
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
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