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Westhampnett (A 27 Bypass)
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An extensive late Iron Age cremation cemetery (c.70 - 40 BC), consisting of 161 graves, 11 pyre sites, 27 'pyre-related features' and five enclosures, one of which contained another burial. All of these features surrounded an open central circular space, which may have been used for ritual ceremonies. The site was re-used for additional burials in the Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon period.
 
Period Iron Age, Roman, Saxon
Date 1st century BC, 2nd century AD & 5-6th century AD
Archive Chichester District Museum, Wessex Archaeology
Grid Reference SU 877054
 
References Fitzpatrick, A.P. 1997 'Archaeological excavations on the route of the A27 Westhampnett Bypass, West Sussex, Vol.2 the cemeteries', Wessex Archaeological Report No.12, Salisbury.
   
   
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