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A DISCOVERY of Roman remains, of interest for its topographical bearing, is reported from West Sussex. Workmen, while laying a water-main from Wickford Bridge, east of Pulborough, to Hurston Farm, discovered Roman walls of rough sandstone, and bonding courses of Roman tiles at a depth of 1-7 feet. They lay just north of Lickfold along the west side of the Wiggonholt Road. According to the account given by the workmen, as reported in The Times of December 24, two walls running parallel to the road and about fifteen feet in, formed a passage, at the end of which was a small square apartment. From the character of the red burnt sandstone and flue tiles thrown out, it is considered reasonable to infer that this had been a stoking chamber and hypocaust belonging to a house site, similar to one of which there are indications one hundred yards away. Surface finds of pottery belong to the turn of the first and second century. The importance of the find lies in the fact that it corroborates the identification of the modern road as being on the line of the Roman road from Stane Street at North Heath, Pulborough, by Wiggonholt to the South Downs north of Storring-ton. The great depth at which the remains were found is due, it is suggested, to the drift of light sandy soil on a down slope.
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Roman Sussex. Nature 139, 20 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139020c0
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