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<< Text Pages >> Lavant Down Earthworks - Misc. Earthwork in England in West Sussex

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Multi-periodSite Name: Lavant Down Earthworks
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.525 km away from the location you searched for.
County: West Sussex Type: Misc. Earthwork
 Nearest Village: East Lavant
Map Ref: SU873098
Latitude: 50.881108N  Longitude: 0.760427W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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SU8710 : Looking south-southwest from St Roche's Hill by Barry Shimmon
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SU8709 : Hercules passing Chichester Cathedral by Rob Farrow
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SU8709 : View north-west from Pook Lane by Robin Webster
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SU8610 : The view goes on and on by Shazz
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SU8610 : Chalkpit Lane heading up St Roche's Hill by Chris Gunns
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 399m E 91° Lavant Down Flint Mines Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry (SU877098)
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New insights into the Neolithic chalk drums from Folkton and Lavant (W Sussex) by Andy B on Tuesday, 15 November 2016
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The enigmatic Neolithic carved objects known as the Folkton drums have been considered to be unique in the repertoire of British Neolithic decorative artefacts. A visit by Anne Teather to Chichester Museum in 2005, undertaken as part of her doctoral research, drew attention to a previously unstudied chalk drum excavated under the direction of James Kenny and known as the Lavant drum.

This unpublished find is a uniquely plain cylindrical chalk drum, and nationally it is the only currently comparable object to the Folkton drums (East Yorkshire), which reside in the British Museum

The Lavant drum was excavated by Chichester and District Archaeology Unit (CDAU, run by Chichester District Council) in 1993 within a complex of Neolithic and later pits at Chalk Pit Lane, Lavant, West Sussex (NGR SU869094).

Due to the subsequent insolvency of CDAU’s successor, Southern Archaeology, following privatization, the post-excavation assessment, analysis and publication of the Lavant site have not been undertaken. The site archive including the drum resides largely as it came from the trenches within the local museum store (The Novium Museum).

Additional excavations in the same locale conducted by Southern Archaeology in 1997 suggest that the site where the Lavant drum was found was not isolated, being closely adjacent to a large and complex Neolithic formative henge. Two unpublished radiocarbon dates were obtained on samples of antler from the henge ditch and suggest a construction date of c. 3000 cal BC. Both the henge and pit complex are located within 1.2 km of The Trundle, a large Neolithic causewayed enclosure and later Iron Age Hillfort. Together, this evidence suggests that Neolithic life in this area was articulated around an important ceremonial landscape. This report discusses similarities and potential connections between the Folkton and Lavant drums

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