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    A magnetometer survey was conducted at Fingerpost Farm in Ringmer, East Sussex to search for a connecting Roman road between Barcombe and Arlington. The survey identified anomalies consistent with a Roman road running west-east through the site, including a clear northern ditch and patches of bloomery slag repairs. Fieldwalking to the west also found a line of downland flints and slag crossing the field on the projected path of the road. The road is thought to connect two major Roman settlements and further surveys could help trace its route.

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    A magnetometer survey was conducted at Fingerpost Farm in Ringmer, East Sussex to search for a connecting Roman road between Barcombe and Arlington. The survey identified anomalies consistent with a Roman road running west-east through the site, including a clear northern ditch and patches of bloomery slag repairs. Fieldwalking to the west also found a line of downland flints and slag crossing the field on the projected path of the road. The road is thought to connect two major Roman settlements and further surveys could help trace its route.

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    A Geophysical Survey at Fingerpost Farm, Ringmer

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    Snuffler 1302

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    A magnetometer survey was conducted at Fingerpost Farm in Ringmer, East Sussex to search for a connecting Roman road between Barcombe and Arlington. The survey identified anomalies consistent with a Roman road running west-east through the site, including a clear northern ditch and patches of bloomery slag repairs. Fieldwalking to the west also found a line of downland flints and slag crossing the field on the projected path of the road. The road is thought to connect two major Roman settlements and further surveys could help trace its route.

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    Fingerpost13 Fingerpost Farm, Broyle Side, Ringmer

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    A magnetometer survey was conducted at Fingerpost Farm in Ringmer, East Sussex to search for a connecting Roman road between Barcombe and Arlington. The survey identified anomalies consistent with a Roman road running west-east through the site, including a clear northern ditch and patches of bloomery slag repairs. Fieldwalking to the west also found a line of downland flints and slag crossing the field on the projected path of the road. The road is thought to connect two major Roman settlements and further surveys could help trace its route.

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    FINGERPOST13 Site identification Fingerpost Farm, Broyle Side, Ringmer and address County, district East Sussex and / or borough O.S. grid ref. TQ457131 Geology. Clay Head over Lower Greensand Project number. SNUFFLER1302 Fieldwork type. Geophysics Site type. Date of fieldwork. May 2013 Sponsor/client. Ringmer Roman Study Group Project manager. David Staveley Project supervisor. Period summary Project summary. (100 word max) Roman A magnetometer survey on the site of a Roman road at Fingerpost Farm, Ringmer

    A Geophysical Survey at Fingerpost Farm, Ringmer


    by David Staveley
    Introduction This survey is the result of a search for a connecting Roman road between the Greensand Way at Barcombe and the Pevensey road at Arlington. Fingerpost Farm was chosen for a survey by following the Roman road west from the previous survey at Downsview Farm (Staveley 2012). A magnetometer survey was undertaken with the Ringmer Roman Study Group, to try to locate more of the Roman road as it travels west towards Barcombe. Acknowledgements The author would like to thank the members of the Ringmer Roman Study Group for help with the surveys, and the landowners for allowing the survey to go ahead. Archaeological Background The Roman road under investigation is assumed to run between two major Roman settlements located at Bridge Farm, Barcombe and Arlington Reservoir. This would have formed part of one long road between Hardham, near Chichester, to the west and Pevensey to the east. This section of the road joins two roads previously investigated by Ivan Margary, the Sussex Greensand Way to the west (1965 p.165) and the Pevensey Road to the east (1965 p.185). Methodology The magnetometer survey was undertaken using a Bartington GRAD601-2 using 40x40m grids, with lines spaced 1 metre apart and 4 readings per metre along the line. The data was processed using Snuffler with destripe and interpolation (from 1.0m x 0.25m to 0.5m x 0.25m) filters applied. The data is displayed with a clipping range of +/- 2 nT. Positioning The grids were set out and recorded in metres using a total station on an arbitrary grid. For each survey, two resection points and the survey area are described in the table below. The location of these points are also shown on the interpretation images. Description RS1: N edge of TP (533220), S edge of field RS2: S edge of N gatepost of gate in NE corner of field G1 G2 Grid North 341.81 518.01 540 460 Grid East 459.30 516.81 420 420

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    Modern features are in red, geological features in blue and archaeological features in green. The course of the road is shown as a black dashed line. The northern ditch is quite clear on the results, but the southern ditch is rather vague and appears to be on a slightly different alignment to the northern ditch. As with the road at Downsview Farm and Laughton Place to the east, the surface seems to be mostly constructed of flint, which is invisible to the magnetometer, but repaired with bloomery slag, which shows up clearly. Patches of this slag are visible on the results.

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    Whilst surveying the field at Fingerpost Farm, other members of the group investigated the field to the west. A clear line of downland flints and bloomery slag was found crossing the ploughed field, with additional traces of blast furnace slag. The centre of this line of flints was recorded with the total station and was found to be in line with the survey at Fingerpost Farm. Further to the west of this survey, the road would need to make a slight northerly turn to join with the road at Bridge Farm. To the east, the road would need to make a slight southerly turn to join with the road found at Bridge Farm. Both of the deviations can be accounted for by the road avoiding the water south of Barnfield Farm at Broyle Side. References A Geophysical Survey at Downsview Farm, Ringmer, Staveley, D., Grey lit. report 2012 Roman Ways in the Weald, Margary, I.D., Phoenix House 1965 (3rd Ed.)

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