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Photo Archive: Roffey excavations 1985

Notes about this site are in Wealden Iron, 2nd series, 3 (1983), 2-3, and in Wealden Iron, 2nd ser. 6 (1986), 3. A report on the medieval house at Brook Lane is in: R. Holgate, ‘The excavation of a late medieval hall-house at Brook Lane, near Horsham, West Sussex’, Sussex Archaeological Collections, 127 (1989), 123-131.

Roffey, possible smithing hearth base (Dot Meades to left): photo J. Hodgkinson
Roffey, possible smithing hearth base: photo J. Hodgkinson
Roffey, Brook Lane medieval house foundations: photo J. Hodgkinson
Roffey excavation: photo J. Hodgkinson
Roffey, Brook Lane medieval house foundations during excavation: photo J. Hodgkinson
Roffey, possible smithing hearth base during excavation: photo J. Hodgkinson
Roffey, excavating the footprint of the ?smithing building: photo J. Hodgkinson
Roffey, possible smithing hearth base during excavation: photo J. Hodgkinson
Roffey, Brook Lane medieval house foundations: photo J. Hodgkinson

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