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Coldean Lane, Brighton

PCA was commissioned to undertake a strip, map and sample excavation at Coldean Lane, in Brighton, ahead of a large residential development. The fieldwork was carried out in the summer of 2020, on the steeply sloping site to the north-east of Brighton, next to the A27.

The team were working in a known Bronze Age landscape and uncovered a series of lynchets, providing evidence of agriculture and farming on the site during that period. Previous excavations carried out in the local area, including those at the University of Brighton’s Varley Park Halls, uncovered settlement evidence of similar Bronze Age dating, and could be associated with the lynchets.

A large, circular, post-medieval pond was also discovered in the western part of the site, believed to be part of a programme of landscaping in the Stanmer Park Estate, carried out in the later 18th century.

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