Publications

For publications relating to a specific excavation, please see our Dig History page.

Policy

Field Handbook
Basic concepts and processes that you will encounter whilst taking part in archaeological field work.

Health and Fitness Indemnity Form
Before attending a site, please complete and sign this form.

Request to Use WAS Equipment
This document outlines the process that Worthing Archaeological Society members are required to follow in order to use the society’s resources on personal projects.

Walks Register Form
For listing attendees and contact details.

Newsletters

2018, June/July

2018, February/March

2017, December/January

2017, October/November

2017, August/September

2017, June/July

2017, April/May

2017, February/March

2016, December/January

2016, October/November

2016, August/September

2016, June/July

2016, April/May

2016, February/March

2015/6, December/January

Annual journals

January 2017. Volume 4, Number 4
Including:
Possible Neolithic Flint Mines at Salvington Hill
Chalk Objects and Identity in the Neolithic: Evidence from Sussex Enclosures
Excavation at the Goblestubbs Copse East Enclosure – Easter 2016
Goblestubbs Copse Flint Report – 2006/7, Easter & Summer 2016
The Heroic Age of Antarctic Explorations: The Worthing Connections
The First 50 Years from the Society’s Minute Books

January 2016. Volume 4, Number 3
Including:
It’s Only Words…! The Mutilation of Samian Stamps in the Chichester Hinterland
Roman Road through Clapham and Patching
Excavation at St. Nicholas Garden, Angmering - June 6th to 27th 2015
Slindon Charcoal Burners
John Frederick Jervis (1891 - 1915)
Operation Nightingale
The Polish Resettlement Camp in Petworth Park

January 2015. Volume 4, Number 2
Including:
Slindon House Stable Block, 2012—13
Sussex Loops
Possible Site of Cutmill Watermill, Broadwater, Worthing
Lower Farm, Walberton, Report 2013—14
Lower Farm, Walberton, Excavation Finds

December 2013. Volume 4, Number 1
Including:
Slindon House Cellars—Interim Report
A Field Walk at Lake Lane, Barnham
Angmering Geophysical Survey
The Stiances Archaeological Project, Season 2
Upstairs at Parham House
A Regionally Important Pottery Group from Goblestubbs Copse 2006—2007
What can the Late Bronze Age hill-forts, between the Adur and Arun rivers, infer about the communities of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Sussex?

May 2012. Volume 3, Number 14
Including:
The Great War
Southwick Report
Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre
Highdown
Surveying and the Survey Team
The ‘Brodgar Boy’ Unearthed in Orkney
Slindon Deer Park
Service to Malaysia Award

May 2011. Volume 3, Number 13
Including:
Bronze Age Site
Parham Report
Downstairs at Parham House
Ice Houses
Iron Age Hill Fort
Stonehenge Quarry Tomb

Meeting minutes

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Member publications

Con Ainsworth (1917-2001) Recollections
Con was an influential member of WAS from 1963 to his death in 2001. 100 years after Con was born, this is a collection of members recollections celebrating his life as an Archaeologist in Sussex.

Was: The First 60 Years
Daphne Palmer

The Military History of Slindon
Rodney Gunner's website on the military history of Slindon.

Robert Turner - Flint Knapping: A Guide to Making Your Own Stone Age Toolkit
Flint knapping, which is the shaping of flint or other fracturing stone to manufacture tools, was one of the primary skills used for survival by our prehistoric ancestors. Bob's guide contains everything you need to know on the subject, accompanied by illustrations and photographs.

Who was Madame Jadot?
Peter. H. Skilton
An investigation into the history of a 1942 grave in the Roman Catholic cemetery , Angmering, West Sussex.

Friends publications

Michael J. Allen (Ed.) - Molluscs in Archaeology: methods, approaches and applications
Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia, 2017

This the first book of its type to include both land and marine shells. This book introduces you to land snails and marine shells - showing what snails and shells can do for you. Environment economy, diet, trade, artefacts from UK to the Med.
The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of molluscs in archaeology.
It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic, both methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad-based text book giving readers an insight into how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes, and how to interpret those landscapes.
It includes marine, freshwater and land snail studies, and examines topics such as diet, economy, climate, environment and land-use, isotopes and molluscs as artefacts. It aims to provide archaeologists and students with the first port of call giving them a) methods and principles, and b) the potential information molluscs can provide.
It concentrates on analysis and interpretation most archaeologists and students can undertake and understand, and reviews the ‘heavier’ science in terms of potential, application and interpretational value.
In conjunction with the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland.