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Photo Archive: Garden Hill excavation

An interim report on these excavations can be found in: J. H. Money and A. D. F. Streeten, ‘Excavations in the Iron Age Hill Fort and Romano-British Iron-working settlement at Garden Hill, Hartfield, East Sussex (1968-1978)’, Wealden Iron, 15 (1979), 16-18.

Foundations of Timber Building B: photo A. Meades
Excavating the bath house: photo A. Meades
Excavating the bath house: photo A. Meades
Excavating the bath house: photo A. Meades
Foundations of Timber Building B: photo A. Meades
Neolithic/Bronze Age transverse arrow head: photo A. Meades
First century AD Bronze strap join: photo A. Meades
Neolithic/Bronze Age transverse arrow head: photo A. Meades
Professor Ronnie Tylecote (centre) visits the site with James Money (left) and Andrew Streeten (right): photo A. Meades
Stone-lined gully: photo A. Meades
Wall spacers in the hot room; these allowed hot air to circulate through the walls: photo A. Meades
General view of excavation. Bath house left and timber buildung right: photo A. Meades
Excavating the hot room: photo A. Meades
The cold plunge: photo A. Meades
Excavating the bath house: photo A. Meades
The cold room (near camera) and cold plunge: photo A. Meades
Excavating the cold room (near camera) and cold plunge; photo A. Meades
Bath house tepid room (left) and hot room (right): photo A. Meades

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