Patricia Mary “Pat” Stevens 24 Nov 1939 - 24 May 2017

THE EASTBOURNE NATURAL HISTORY &

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Founded 1867

SUMMER NEWSLETTER No 91 June 2017

EASTBOURNE NATURAL HISTORY &ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Founded 1867President: Olive Woodall

ENHAS Chairman and Greg Chuter County Archaeologist County Hall

St Anne's Crescent Lewes BN7 1UE

Tel: 01273 336177Mob: 07500123634

gregory.chuter@eastsussex.gov.uk

Hon. Treasurer & Membership Secretary John Warren49 Prideaux Rd

Eastbourne BN21 2NETel: 01323 731792

johnthepot_helen@lineone.net

Hon. Secretary & Newsletter Editor Helen Warren(same contact details as John Warren)

Committee members: Corinne Betts, Eva and Steve Corbett, Rob Davies, Ian Ferguson, Sheila Love, Alison Selmes, Lawrence Stevens, Bob Williams,

A Message from the Editor

We will all miss Pat in so many ways. Everyone has their own memories, read some and a tribute to Pat on pages 4 and 5. Lawrence, and daughter Cecilia, thank you for your support at this sad time.

We are delighted to welcome Ian Ferguson as Archaeological Projects Manager, Bob Williams as Projects Coordinator, plus Steve and Eva Corbett, onto the committee. It is planned to run more activities, research and training in the future, starting with the ENHAS Butts Brow dig in July. See page 12 for more details.

Please note that from September our monthly speaker meetings will take place on the third Friday of the month. On 15th Sep Chris Greatorex and Greg will be talking about Butts Brow. Tea, coffee, cake and biscuits will be served after the meeting so do stay for a chat and a cuppa although we have to be cleared up and out by 10.00pm!

Copy date for the next Newsletter is 1 September - happy to receive any reports, news or pictures.

Helen Warren Hon. Secretary and Newsletter Editor

.Chairman's Report 2016 - 17

It has been another active year for the society. In July we held our 3rd Symposium which focused on the Eastbourne Urban Medieval Excavation Project. It was a successful day with speakers telling us about different aspects of the 1970’s Church Street excavation and the ancient buildings in thispart of Old Town.

Last year we listened to a fascinating programme of lectures, including Tim Allenon the excavations at Crane Down, Jevington, John Skelton on excavations at Hog Croft Field Ovingdean, Rob Wallace and David Millum from the Culver Farm Project, Tom Dommett from the National Trust telling about the Seven Sisters Archaeological Project and Matt Pope with a talk entitled "Exploring Ice Age Islands" featuring Jersey but explaining far more. The Christmas Meeting as usual, was three short talks presented by ENHAS members. In January I talked about about the archaeology of Malling Down, Lewes, and was delighted that in the audience was the “schoolboy” who had first discovered some human bones at Malling Down in the 1970s!

Under the organisation of Ian Ferguson and Bob Williams new site projects for 2017 are already underway with test pits dug in gardens in Pevensey and research being done on Manxey, a lost village and monastic site on the Pevensey Levels. ENHAS members also participated in excavations at Belle Tout and Butts Brow. This summer it is planned to dig three trenches at Butts Brow, this will be an ENHAS organised dig and will include training in surveying, artefact identification and artefact illustration.

I would like to thank:The 2016/17 committee, who have worked extremely hard behind thescenes to organise the events, members and Newsletters that keep thissociety going.Thank you also to non-committee members such as Steve who eachmonth sets up the equipment for the lectures with no fuss and moreimportantly no technical difficulties.Also Roland Jenkins who acts as Scrutineer of the Societies accounts.On behalf of the committee and the members, I thank our PresidentOlive Woodhall for her continued support. Lastly we remember our late Vice President Pat Stevens who was anintegral part of the infrastructure of the society.

Greg Chuter, ENHAS Chairman

Remembering Pat

I first met Pat when I was about 10 and dug at the Eastbourne Urban Medieval Project. As a teenager I have fond memories of Pat showing me how to record animal bones at the Towner Museum, although I found bones very interesting, I got easily distracted by rebuilding a huge Bronze Age pot we found in the museum collection. Pat was a cheery, energetic lady who always made you feel welcome, and had a wealth of knowledge on many subjects. She will be greatly missed.Greg Chuter MA, MCIFACounty Archaeologist

I have only known Pat for around 8 years but in that time I saw her many and varied talents. Her skills with identifying animal bones were well known and appreciated by many in the archaeological world and her dedication to conservation at Polegate Windmill is quite literally recorded in the very structure of that wonderful building and the legacy that this gives us. Our cats and chickens have been very pleased to have benefited from Pat’s sage advice on animal feeds and toys. And personally I have benefited from having Pat as a colleague, advisor, volunteer and I hope, most importantly, friend.Jo SeamanHeritage Eastbourne

A much respected and loved local historian. It was Pat’s energetic and no-nonsense approach that got me involved in local history back in the 1970s when I dug with her and Lawrence on the Jesus House Excavations opposite St Mary’s Church in Eastbourne. Kevin GordonLocal historian

Although I have not know Pat for long, I was always struck by the way Pat was always so competent and confident; she seemed to know what to do when something went wrong, and howto fix it - always retaining her sense of humour. She had so much energy and interest in the worldaround her, and she is going to be sorely missed by all at ENHAS - a remarkable lady.Val KempENHAS member

I first really met Pat at the St Anne’s Road dig in the ECAT grounds. I took our 10-year-old son Tim, and he was fascinated. He asked me if he could help, so I suggested going over and offering to empty a bucket where Pat was excavating a skeleton. She grabbed his hand, pulled him down to kneel beside her, and put a trowel in his hand. By evening he was hooked, having excavated the bones, a spear, shield boss, and knife! She was wonderful, and it was something I have never forgotten, neither has Tim.John WarrenENHAS Treasurer and Membership Secretary

A Tribute to Patricia Mary “Pat” Stevens

Pat was born in St Albans on 7 October 1939. Her introduction to archaeology was early –as a child she would take herself to sit on the edge of trenches being dug by Sir Mortimer Wheelerwho from time to time would give her pottery sherds which she took and saved on her windowsill.

After leaving school at 15 Pat went to work at the Shredded Wheat factory in WelwynGarden City. She later commenced nurse training; leaving Hertfordshire to complete her studies atthe local hospital in Eastbourne in around 1958. This is when she met Lawrence and found they hadmany shared interests. They married in 1963 at St Saviours Church on a very snowy day and somewell-known local names including Richard Gilbert and Vera Hodsell attended. The couple went on tohave one child, Cecilia, in 1964, who assisted them with their local endeavours.

Pat opted to run her own business and stopped nursing when Highland Lodge closeddown. She set up a printing business and was the first person locally to use an offset litho printer –she produced many pamphlets and reports on local history.

In 1962 Patricia was one of the founder members of the Eastbourne and DistrictPreservation Society. The need to preserve Polegate Windmill was identified and Lawrence wassuccessful in stopping a planning application for demolition. The mill was officially opened to thepublic in 1967 by the Duke of Devonshire.

In about 1966 Pat had her first excavation on Pashley Down. This identified an 18thcentury post mill. Other excavations followed and later she took an extra-mural course in FieldArchaeology at the University of London moving on to specialise in animal bones, studying withrenowned zooarchaeologist Professor Tony Legge. The next year she and Lawrence led the BourneValley excavations in Eastbourne. The couple have worked on excavations together since the1960s, including on many windmill sites, Michelham Priory, Church St, Old Town and St Annes Hill.Together they had became champions of archaeology in Eastbourne. Now professionalarchaeologists Mike Allen, Greg Chuter and Chris Greatorex, along with numerous othervolunteers, had their earliest experiences of excavation with the Stevens’. Pat continued withvarious research projects some of which have been published or presented as talks in associationwith Lawrence. The protection of the old artifacts from the Towner was successfully achieved with agreat deal of assistance from Pat .

There was the purchase of some Southdown sheep, a rare breed at this time, and therecruiting of a ram called Bartie (even his name has local historical significance – Bartholomew deBadelsmere being the 14th Century Lord of the Manor of Eastbourne) soon the sheep became aflock!

Pat continued to raise her sheep, run her yellow jeep and her shop in Old Town until shewas taken ill. She was known locally for her involvement in archaeology, local history and thepreservation of Polegate Windmill and was Vice President, a life time member and mainstay ofENHAS. She will be greatly missed.

In view of Pat and Lawrence’s long association with windmill archaeology, it is eminentlyappropriate that her interment was at the woodland burial site at Clayton, below the Jack and Jillwindmills, whose sweeps were set vertical and horizontal for mourning.

Exploring Ice Age Islands Dr Matt Pope 10 March

To a fairly full meeting, Matt explained that his interest was in the Palaeolithic, Pleistocene landscape of the English Channel. Today this centres on coastlines and islands, as the landscapes of interest were drowned following the dramatic sea-level rise following the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago. His work has revolved around 7 years of research in Jersey, an island of about 10x6 miles, which has a granite core, cut by massive fissures all around the coast, overlain by sediments approx. 5 metres of loess, or wind-blown dust, though this layer is much deeper where it has washed into the gullies. The loess was laid down between 105 and 100 thousand years bc, and is thought to have come from the glacial moraines left by previous retreating ice sheets. The mainland of Britain has quite thin layers of loess, and only in the South, as most of the land was covered by ice sheets, in some places miles thick. Loess deposits can be 100s of metres deep in parts of Asia. The loess is what make the Channel Islands so productive agriculturally, so that the centre of the islands cannot be excavated, but the gullies and fissures around the coast are accessible, and have been very rewarding. The coasts of the islands are very dynamic and unstable, with exposure to storms and the large tidal range constantly scouring the rocks, and this has revealed the evidence of Neanderthals.

The strata he is interested in lay beneath this loess, of the Magdalenian period, about 14,000 bc, and before, at the coldest period of the last Ice Age. Remains of this period are sparse in southern England, there have been two confirmed artefacts from Kent, and one from Surrey, due to massive erosion from the melting of the last ice sheets, but there have been 7,000 artefacts so far from Jersey, and more are emerging all the time. The Magdalenian period is interesting because it has the first flowering of abstract and representational art, as at Lascaux in the French Dordogne region, or even earlier at Altamira in Spain.

What is now the coast of Jersey would have been a good place to live, and Neanderthals were living there for thousands of years and Matt was keen to discover why. There were caves and platforms in the granite gullies, which would have had unrestricted views from 50 metres high above a wide expanse of savannah like grazing ground, stretching to the North towards a fordable river running along the length of what is now the English Channel towards the Atlantic coast, off to the South-West of the Scilly Islands to the West, which themselves would have been a range of hills in the landscape. To the North, the plain would have risen gradually towards the Southern edge of the ice sheets. The Cotentin peninsular, on the mainland of France would have been a short 2 hour walk away.

For 90% of the last million years the sea levels were much lower. The drowned landscape features in legends from Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, ie Avalon of the Arthurian legend, or StMichael’s Mount off Cornwall, known locally as “the grey rock in the forest”. Fossilised trees are still exposed at low tide in Cardigan Bay, and the Hazeborough footprints also

found on the coast, were dated to 850-900,000 years ago and recorded, but had disappeared at the next tide. Footprints have also been found in the inter-tidal muds of the Wirral near Liverpool, but again, were soon scoured away and lost. The British Admiralty became aware of drowned Doggerland when it started to map the seabed, though fishermen had been dredging bones of mammoth, and Mesolithic artefacts. The fishermen of the Channel Islands have also known for years that there were large flat plains under the high tides, with treacherous reefs sticking up, and deep gullies running through, and these are now beginning to be explored, using drones and lidar, though with the ever present danger of the rapidly rising tide, there is a 10 metre tidal range, and the ebb and flow is very dramatic and fast. These flats represent areas of land larger in area than all of the island put together, and reveal features such as lakes and river systems. This drowned landscape features all around Europe, Lesvos in the Aegean has yielded Palaeolithic hand axes, Naxos and Crete, the Black Sea, Australia and New Guinea,Siberia and Alaska have all revealed human activity from the drowned landscape.

Working from the levels below the loess, in a sticky yellow clay, Matt’s work has revealed the earliest dates for Neanderthal activity at about 125,000 years bc, with continuous Ice Age activity through 20 metres of loess. Hand axes, Mammoth bones and teeth, footprints, fireplaces, butchering episodes, are all present. No flints occur geologically on the Channel Islands, but many worked flints are found, the best flints would have come from the deep parts of the channel, where they would have been eroded from the chalk further east, and taken back to the high ground to be worked. Their work is now taking them out to the remote reefs in the inter-tidal area, to target areas identified by lidar and drones, to see if traces of human activity can be found there also. These reefs represent high ground similar to the occupation sites on Jersey, but a little lower in elevation, and are thought to be very promising.

The earliest known Neanderthal sites on Jersey are about 125,000 bc, but river deposits in the Solent are thought to be earlier, as is Boxgrove man, but he was a Heidelbergensis hominin. Neanderthals probably died out by being out-competed and marginalised by the arrival of modern humans, though this would have taken many hundreds or even thousands of years, andthere were genetic exchanges, ie interbreeding. The last population group are thought to have occupied Gibraltar. Most modern humans have traces of Neanderthal DNA, the only ones who do not are sub-Saharan Africans. Asians also have traces of Denisovian DNA! We are a complicated mixture.

Following a lively Q&A session, Greg Chuter gave a short vote of thanks, and the assembled members and visitors all applauded this fascinating talk enthusiastically.

Report by John Warren

ENHAS AGM talk Jo Seaman 28 April

Following the AGM and refreshments, Eastbourne Heritage Officer Jo Seaman told the meeting about recent developments at the Eastbourne Redoubt. Commenting that however much one may think they know a building, when thoroughly investigated, they are always full ofsurprises.

As background information told us that it was a relatively recent building, compared to some of the sites he has talked to us about, at almost exactly 210 years old, (started 1804/5, completed in 1807), making it one of the few relatively original Georgian buildings in the town. It is a scheduled Ancient Monument, and is unique, being quite different from the other redoubt fort of the same age at Dymchurch. It was built as part of the coastal defences against Napoleon, along with the 74 Martello Towers that stretch from Folkestone to Seaford, and wasobsolescent when completed due to Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar in 1805. It was brick built, on a floating chalk foundation, with a dry ditch all round behind a glacis mound. It is a circular gun platform, built over radial casemates around a central parade ground, and once stood alone with a 360 degrees field of fire with no housing close by, at the Western end of the shingle bankof the Crumbles. It has survived because it is so close to the sea, but it is also at great risk from the sea, with damp rising from below each tide, and water penetration from above due to rain. Bitumen was applied during the 19th century in an attempt to alleviate this.

The population of Eastbourne doubled when the towers and redoubt were built, which were a potent armed presence that had interlocking fields of fire guarding the coast, with the Redoubt opposite a point out to sea where invading enemy transports could come relatively close to the shore to be able to off-load troops and cargo. An illustration of 1855 showed how low to the ground it seemed behind its glacis, offering little or no target to artillery fire. It was refurbished in 1860-75, and given carponniers, or musketry galleries, to guard the moat. There is accommodation for 300 men, but from documents its average garrison was only five! This also included families. In 1887/8 the fort was for sale as it had lost its military use, and was an out of date folly. The Council bought it in 1926, and installed a 110 lb rifled muzzle-loaded cannon on the gun platform as an attraction. In 1929/30 there were plans to turn it into a bandstand with an arena, and others to turn it into a lido, both had severe problems and the proposals were dropped. The dry moat was roofed over to provide storage for deckchairs, which rotted in the damp, and a colonnade was built above, which is now disintegrating, with the steel supports rusting through. In the 1950s a model village was built over the parade ground, and an aquarium inserted into the casemates. In the ‘70s and ‘80s the Redoubt became a museum to three military collections, The Royal Sussex Regiment, The Royal Irish Hussars, and The Sussex Combined Services, but it was not fit for purpose, and it was impossible to maintain and preserve the collections. A museum with fabrics should have a humidity of a max of 45-50%, the Redoubt’s humidity is 85-90%! The collections have now been relocated, with the Royal Sussex Regiment artefacts in store in Brighton, where theyare being thoroughly catalogued and conserved.

Following a thorough survey it was estimated that to make the building completely watertight and suitable to be a museum would cost between 12 and 15 million pounds, an impossible sum, but that to bring it to a reasonable condition would cost only 4 million. This would make the building usable, with possible workshop accommodation for let, and able to be open to the public. The colonnade needs to be demolished, and the western part of the dry moat exposedto provide disabled access. The Pavilion tea rooms will also go, and be replaced by a new museum building. Unfortunately the now derelict café, built in the 1960s over the Eastern partof the covered moat, will not be removed, however much of an eyesore it is. English Heritage consider it as part of the overall historical fabric of the Redoubt, and it is to be refurbished. TheEastern covered section of the dry ditch will remain lost to view!

This year all “recent” alterations and additions have been stripped out from within the Redoubt, and the building returned to the original brickwork. All the MDF, chipboard and wooden panelling has gone, and some unexpected fireplaces and other features have been discovered. The 1880 plans show 24 casemates, with accommodation for 40 men per casemate, and a cooking fire for two casemates, or 80 men, it must have been cold, damp and dreary! In 1890 bread and meat stores were made, with boilers and ovens, and by 1900 new partition walls were inserted, but they did not reach the roof. More changes were made in 1910 in the form of lock-ups or cells, (mainly for drunks!), with squints to watch the prisoners. An early 19th century plan showed the far from convenient latrines to be free standing huts some way to the north of the Redoubt, covered for officers, open to the sky for other ranks. In 1860 earth closets were installed for officers, in the 1880s a convenience was built on the gun platform, separate for officers, men and women, and in 1900, water closets were installed in one of the casemates, where they are still housed.

The 9 over 9 Georgian sash windows are being restored, and gave a good amount of light intothe casemates, but they were still very damp. When von Arnim’s Steyr staff car was removed, the upholstery was found to be saturated, covering serious rust problems developing in the metal fabric of the car, though its removal did reveal an unexpected small corner sink hidden behind it. During the 1860 refurbishment a flue was cut through the solid brickwork for an extra fire, and there were troughs cut in the floor to provide draught to the newly installed wood-burning stoves. A foul bedding store was turned into an office, and there was a fumigation room, presumably for steam cleaning lice out of fabrics. Before the carponniers were built there was little access to the dry moat, and tiny windows were cut high into the brickwork for observation and musketry, a sally port was made, and then the 5 carponniers were built to cover the whole ditch with musketry. In the 1860s parts of the gun platform wall were built up, and the embrasures were made smaller to give more cover, and totake advantage of improved sliding gun carriages. The residents at the time of these refurbishments were the 55th Westmorland Regiment of Foot, but Scots Guards, and Grenadiers also feature in old photos, with bell tents over the parade ground, laid with grass and gravel.

For a brickwork enthusiast it’s fun to spot the bond! In the original build nearly all the bricks came from London, and are laid with a header bond on the outer wall, Flemish bond is used on the outer moat wall, and English bond on the casemate fronts. 4 more bonds are in evidence! There are also some typical lovely Georgian rubbed brick details over the windows.

What next. First there is still a lot of archaeological recording, and research to do. The original paint scheme has been expose, and this will be restored as a replica of the original build. Historic England want all the 60s clutter removed from without the fort, and the ditch exposed again, The fitness centre has 3 years lease still, when it will be removed, but English Heritage, who are guardians of ‘listed’ buildings as has been said, want the café to be preserved. The fort is now open in parts again, Eastbourne residents will only pay once per year, and can visit again as many times again during that year, currently with an audio visual as part of the “Faces of the Fort” exhibition. These names will need a lot of further research to give life to the history of the building. One face of the Local Artillery Volunteers in 1890 was a dentist, then a surgeon, who advocated hydrotherapy treatment. He founded the Hydro Hotel!

After a lively Q & A session, Chairman Greg Chuter proposed a vote of thanks to Jo for his fascinating and detailed talk, and the meeting applauded enthusiastically.

Report by John Warren

ENHAS Field Unit Report from Steve Corbett

A small archaeological excavation was carried out at a house on Pevensey High Street, prior to the construction of an extension at the rear of the property. The site is at the opposite end of the High Street to Pevensey Castle.

A trench was opened along the edge of the existing patio and was 0.5 metres wide 4 metres long. The trench was excavated by hand in-between rain showers. The trench was comprised of 3 distinct layers, and contained a mixture of modern pottery, medieval pottery, animal bone (butchered?), glass, ceramic building material, burnt wood, shell, flint, slate, clay pipe, coal and water washed pebbles. At 0.5 meter the trench came down on to natural clay, the trench was recorded and a section plan drawn and was then closed down. No other archaeological features or deposits were observed.

The bones from the site have been sent for analysis and, we are awaiting the report.

Having looked at the pottery assemblage and the fact that pottery from different periods was all mixed up together it is thought that it was probably brought in when the house was built.

My thanks to Eva Corbett, Bob Williams, Buffy Bennett & Malcolm Marston for all their hard work and enthusiasm.

ENHAS members at Pevensey and a pottery shard find.

ENHAS dig at Butts Brow

In July ENHAS will be carrying out a dig at Butts Brow led by Greg Chuter. It will consist of three trenches over three earthworks around a nearby area. The dates of the digs will be Fri 21st July, Sat 22nd July and Sun 23 July.There is already a list of would-be participants and places are limited but we will endeavour to get any ENHAS members who want to get involved in some way.Now we realise not everyone wants to, is capable of, or can come every day. So let us know your do's and don'ts. For example there will be jobs such as digging, some pot washing, drawing, chatting to passers by etc. Training will also be given by Greg and the more experienced members. For ENHAS this is the first dig for a long time. Last summer’s dig was run by Heritage Eastbourne although many of those taking part were ENHAS members. If you are interested in taking part please contact Bob Williams Email: foordscottage@talktalk.net . Once we have your replies we will make out a roster and email it out.It is also planned to follow up with further training sessions in identifying pottery, bones, glass and metal together with training on survey work and illustrating artefacts. Again please contact Bob if you are interested in coming along to these workshops. Under Jo’s command Heritage Eastbourne will also be continuing their dig at Butts Brow from 17 - 30 July. Contact Katherine Buckland if you interested in joining this excavation. Email: katherine.buckland@eastbourne.gov.uk

Heritage Eastbourne’s drone image, taken in 2016, showing the Butts Brow site with “diggers” marking

the perimeter of an outer ditch.

The hand-building option was out of the window, as was the research for the right clay, and more particularly the fillers, or grogs, which were added to the clay to give it resistance to thermal shock. I had to use a commercial, heavily grogged clay, (Potclays Craft Crank), and throw the samples on the wheel, as it is quicker, modifying them by hand to assume the hand-made look. Plaiting grass or plant fibre cords for the decoration was also out of the question, so I used some twisted 2mm copper wire salvaged from electric cables instead.

It was a bit of a conundrum when it came to colour, as I fire in an electric kiln which gives pure, clean colours, and the originals were fired in a pit under an open fire, with all the variations that smoky atmospheres can give, and had spent 3,000 years soaking in the various colours of soil and animal droppings. I was really stumped, but Helen got out her acrylic paints, and the result can be seen in the case together with the original shards at the Pavilion.

It was a very interesting and challenging project, and I look forward to more requests from the Heritage department!

John Warren

Earlier this year I was asked if it was possible to make a facsimile of a Beaker ware pot, specifically to a contour drawing of one that was recently excavated. I said it was possible, but I would need a lead-in time of 6-8 weeks to test colours, clays, firing temperatures, and proper hand methods of hand-making. I was then told that the “Living on the Edge” exhibition was opening in about 3 weeks, at the Pavilion, next to the Redoubt!

News from other Groups

BHAS Ovingdean Excavations First week long dig begins Monday 5th June - Contact John Funell john.funnell@brightonarch.org.uk. ENHAS members are invited to take part.

Wednesday 7th June - BHAS Walk - Whitehawk Hill -Meet at the top ofHill, by the race track at-00 pm - leader John Funnell john.funnell@brightonarch.org.uk

Friday 9th June @ 7.30pm: APresentation - Bridge Farm Romano-British Settlement 2011-2017. Barcombe Village Hall, Barcombe Mills Rd, Barcombe BN8 5BH

Saturday 10th June - A BHAS Planning and Section drawing day at Ovingdean with Jane Russell - Contact Pete if you would like to be part of this session tolpete@btinternet.com. There will be a reduction if you are EH or NT members.

Tuesday 13th June. 7:30 HDAG.Cross Ridge Dykes of Prehistoric Sussex, speaker Dr Judie English. Beeson House, Southwater RH13 9LA. All welcomemembers £3. Any queries please contact horshamarch@hotmail.co.uk or 01903 872309

Saturday June 17th Flint-knapping - A Worthing Archaeology SocietyDay School - with Bob Turner at the Barn. Contact Patricia onp.leming@btinternet.com to sign up.

For more information about any of the above T: 07789245106

ENHAS PUBLICATIONS

JESUS HOUSE AND VICARAGE SITE - An Interim Report £1.50THREE LIME BURNING PITS, CHURCH STREET, EASTBOURNE £1.50THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF THE STAR BREWERY SITE £1.50 AN INTERIM ACCOUNT OF THE BOURNE VALLEY EXCAVATIONS £3.50RESCUE EXCAVATION AT POCOCKS FIELD 1991 £3.80AN EXCAVATION AT POCOCKS FIELD 2005-An Interim Report £1.95STENCHAOLL FIELD, EASTBOURNE £1.95SHINEWATER, EASTBOURNE'S BRONZE AGE GEM £1.95A NATURAL HISTORY Of EASTBOURNE £3.50A FLORA OF THE STAR BREWERY SITE £1.50A PEEP AT VICTORIAN EASTBOURNE £1.50EASTBOURNE - aspects of archaeology, history and heritage £8.50

To purchase copies of ENHAS publications contact Robin Reffell T: 01323 648226 Email: cliffecorner@supanet.com

The Sussex Guild Contemporary Craft ShowMichelham Priory, Upper Dicker, Nr. Hailsham BN27 3QS

For nearly 50 years members of the Sussex Guild have been showing at Michelham Priory at their annual craft show.

This year the event will take place from the 3 to 6 August, with exhibitors in the Elizabethan barn and in marquees on the lawns.

However, it is the skilled craft demonstrations that make this show special. Demonstrations will show machine embroidery, patchwork, smocking, wood turning and various aspects of ceramics including throwing on thewheel, a raku kiln firing and John Warren showing how he creates his torso planters! See example onthe poster.

Michelham Priory was one of the first properties to be purchased by

Sussex Archaeological Society, now Sussex Past. The foundations of the church and part of the Priory building can still be seen together with the Gatehouse, Tudor house, reconstructed round houses and herb garden.With delightful gardens, England’s largest moat, working mill and children’s play area, there’s something for everyone at Michelham.

Come to the Sussex Guild craft show for a great day out with added archaeological interest!

EASTBOURNE NATURAL HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Founded 1867President: Olive Woodall

ENHAS Chairman and Greg Chuter County Archaeologist County Hall

St Anne's Crescent Lewes BN7 1UE

Tel: 01273 336177Mob: 07500123634

gregory.chuter@eastsussex.gov.uk

Hon. Treasurer & Membership Secretary John Warren49 Prideaux Rd

Eastbourne BN21 2NETel: 01323 731792

johnthepot_helen@lineone.net

Hon. Secretary & Newsletter Editor Helen Warren(same contact details as John Warren)

Committee members: Corinne Betts, Eva and Steve Corbett, Rob Davies, Ian Ferguson, Sheila Love, Alison Selmes, Lawrence Stevens, Bob Williams,

A Message from the Editor

We will all miss Pat in so many ways. Everyone has their own memories, read some and a tribute to Pat on pages 4 and 5. Lawrence, and daughter Cecilia, thank you for your support at this sad time.

We are delighted to welcome Ian Ferguson as Archaeological Projects Manager, Bob Williams as Projects Coordinator, plus Steve and Eva Corbett, onto the committee. It is planned to run more activities, research and training in the future, starting with the ENHAS Butts Brow dig in July. See page 12 for more details.

Please note that from September our monthly speaker meetings will take place on the third Friday of the month. On 15th Sep Chris Greatorex and Greg will be talking about Butts Brow. Tea, coffee, cake and biscuits will be served after the meeting so do stay for a chat and a cuppa although we have to be cleared up and out by 10.00pm!

Copy date for the next Newsletter is 1 September - happy to receive any reports, news or pictures.

Helen Warren Hon. Secretary and Newsletter Editor

Programme

Fri 21st July, Sat 22nd July and Sun 23 JulyENHAS dig around Butts Brow led by Greg Chuter

For more details see page 12.

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As agreed at the AGM, from September our monthly programme of speakermeetings will take place on the third Friday of the month, not the second!

The first talk will be on Friday 15 September whenChris Greatorex and Greg Chuter

will give a talk entitled:“Excavations at Belle Tout, a 100 year old mystery solved”.

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20 October and 17 November meetings TBA

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Christmas Meeting on Friday 15 Dec

Short talks by ENHAS members(Will you volunteer to speak on an aspect of archaeology or natural history?)

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Unless arranged elsewhere, meetings are at:St Saviour’s Church Hall, Spencer Rd, Eastbourne BN21 4PA

Meetings start at 7.30 pm, doors open 7.05 pm Members free, visitors £2.50

Coffee, tea, cake and biscuits will be served at the end of the meeting.

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For further information about the Society contact: E: enhas.info@gmail.com or T: 01323 731792 M: 07811 480292

www.eastbournearchaeology.org.uk

Programme

Fri 21st July, Sat 22nd July and Sun 23 JulyENHAS dig around Butts Brow led by Greg Chuter

For more details see page 12.

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As agreed at the AGM, from September our monthly programme of speakermeetings will take place on the third Friday of the month, not the second!

The first talk will be on Friday 15 September whenChris Greatorex and Greg Chuter

will give a talk entitled:“Excavations at Belle Tout, a 100 year old mystery solved”.

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20 October and 17 November meetings TBA

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Christmas Meeting on Friday 15 Dec

Short talks by ENHAS members(Will you volunteer to speak on an aspect of archaeology or natural history?)

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Unless arranged elsewhere, meetings are at:St Saviour’s Church Hall, Spencer Rd, Eastbourne BN21 4PA

Meetings start at 7.30 pm, doors open 7.05 pm Members free, visitors £2.50

Coffee, tea, cake and biscuits will be served at the end of the meeting.

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For further information about the Society contact: E: enhas.info@gmail.com or T: 01323 731792 M: 07811 480292

www.eastbournearchaeology.org.uk