Worthing Archaeological Society

THREE Digs Successfully Completed this Season

28/8/2024

A busy summer season of digs has just been completed by the society:

Sullington Warren, in conjunction with the National Trust, 29 April - 6 May 2024
The Whitehouse at Sompting, 15th July - 3rd August 2024
The Burpham Big Dig, led by Worthing Museum to excavate 30 1m x 1m test pits at Burpham and adjacent hamlets, in conjunction with the local community, 10 - 23 August 2024.

Photographs and commentary can be found at Field Work > Current & Recent Digs.

WAS at Binsted Strawberry Fair

22/7/2024

Enjoying the sunshine, and the vibe.

WAS had a stand at the wonderful Binsted Village Strawberry Fair on Sunday 21 July, taking a break from the Whitehouse dig. The Fair's 2024's guest charities, alongside Binsted Church repairs, are Bognor Regis Foodbank and Sanctuary in Chichester (helping refugees).

Help Littlehampton Museum

23/6/2024

Littlehampton Museum is reaching out to gather your insights and experiences, as to how we can best support you to visit and engage with the museum and its collections.

Your insights are invaluable for shaping our programme, collections and policies.
We'd like to hear from you about topics such as community and peers, motivations and barriers, experience and engagement, communications and content.

We hope you can spare the time to share your thoughts with us. Your Participation Matters!
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Pioneering Member Memorialised at Worthing Museum

4/6/2024

On 16th May a Blue Plaque was unveiled at Worthing Museum commemorating our pioneering member John Pull. Details of his life and contribution to archaeology can be read on the Worthing Museum website: wtm.uk/john-pull-archaeology/ A report on the unavailing is in the June/July 24 WAS newsletter.

Petworth Park Walk - Saturday 27 April 2024

7/5/2024

A group of Worthing Archaeological Society folk had a fascinating and enjoyable walk through a landscape designed by Capability Brown at the historic 700 acre Petworth Park lead by Henry Wakeford.

Photos by Donna Wiltshire.

Lecture 9 January 2024: Recent Discoveries at the Bridge Farm Roman Settlement - David Millum

6/2/2024

David Millum, co-director with Rob Wallace of the Culver Archaeological Project, gave a summary of the recent excavations of the Romano–British settlement at Bridge Farm, near Barcombe Mills. Whilst the main theme of the talk was the features and artefacts found in Trench 7 during 2018-23, they also included a brief background to the site as well as their current thoughts about how this 1st to 4th century settlement evolved and how it fitted into the wider Roman landscape of south-east Britain. Anyone who missed their previous talk to WAS in 2018 and who would like to catch up on the features and finds revealed in the six previous trenches excavated between 2013-18 will find earlier PowerPoint presentations and written summaries on the project's website: www.culverproject.co.uk

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