Bone Modification Experiments

This week the project played host to Bill Boismier (Lynford Project Director) and Geoff Smith (UCL). They undertook a series of bone modification experiments at the site, the results of which will be utilised in the further analysis of faunal material from the Late Plesitocene site of Lynford.

Ann Clark Visit

Ann Clark, our Field Monument Warden (English Heritage) visited the Boxgrove site to inspect our clearance work on the Devils Ditch and to assess the potential for extending the boundaries of the site to include the entire width of the monument.

The Devils Ditch is an Iron Age entrenchment which stretches for several kilometres across the northern part of the coastal plain. It is part of a network of similar fortifications which probably relate to a late Iron Age Oppida (Proto-urban development) in the Chichester area. Currently around 200m of the formidable ditch and part of the bank lie within our boundary and we have begun to manage and protect the monument through scrub clearance.

It is hope that eventually the boundary can be changed to include the entire width of the field monument, therefore taking in the entirety of the bank, within our site.