Annual Journals

December 2025. Volume 6, Number 2

Including:

  • Highdown Round Barrow by Alex Vincent
  • Highdown Hill by Portia Ceccarelli-Drewry
  • The First Battle of Alton by Felix Bowler
  • 9 The Burpham Big Dig 2024 – Interim Report 1 by James Sainsbury
  • Burpham Burh as a Possible Siege Castle by Keith Bolton

December 2024. Volume 6, Number 1

Including:

  • Barrow Acre by Alex Vincent
  • A Box of Delights: Tales of Clapham and Patching by Alan King
  • Sullington Warren Excavation 2024: Interim Report by Keith Bolton
  • On being a member of the Finds Team at Burpham Big Dig, August 2024 by Cheryl Hutchins

December 2023. Volume 5, Number 6

Including:

  • Report on Flint found in the Bosham Channel Vicinity, Bosham, West Sussex 2017/2018/2019 by Martin Simons
  • Highdown: Possible Bronze Age Barrows by Alex Vincent
  • Roman Self-Healing Cement spotted in The Times by Anthony Brook
  • Climping: 19th Century Graffiti on an old concrete wall capping by Bill Watkins
  • Addendum to ‘A Report on the clearance of the Slindon House Stable Block by Worthing Archaeological Society, 2012/13’ on work completed 2019/2021 by Keith Bolton & Cheryl Hutchins

December 2022. Volume 5, Number 5

Including:

  • My first year with The Worthing Archaeological Society by Alan Beazley
  • Recovery of a suspected Iron Age/Bronze Age Pottery Assemblage from Atherington Beach located between Bailiffs Court and Poole Place,
  • West Sussex by Bill Watkins
  • Barrow Mills on Bury Hill: Bronze Age barrows used as windmill-steads by Alex Vincent
  • Roman Villas in Sussex: a Cartographic Conundrum by Anthony Brook
  • The Medieval Pottery and Tile Industry at Church Farm, Binsted by Keith Bolton


December 2021. Volume 5, Number 4

Including:

  • The Romano Celtic Temple on Lancing Down by Brian Drury
  • Highdown: a central Roman Stronghold? By Alex Vincent
  • Slindon Estate: Field 20 Romano-British site interpretation by Keith Bolton
  • St Nicholas’ Church Angmering – Six Years On by Amie Friend

December 2020. Volume 5, Number 3

Including:

  • Continuing the theme of Water at Sompting by Connie Shirley
  • Gold in the Pond: Investigations at Edburton 2018 – 2020 by James Sainsbury
  • An Iron-Age Fort within an Anglo-Saxon Burh at Burpham – Part 2 by Alan King
  • The Ancient Windmills of Highdown by Alex Vincent
  • Dr George Dixon and Dixon’s Pills by Anthony Brook
  • Central Hearths and Drystone Walls by Cheryl Hutchins

December 2019. Volume 5, Number 2

Including:

  • Possible Ancient Sites in Goring by Alex Vincent
  • Of Water and Wells at Sompting by Connie Shirley
  • Notes from the Museum: West Tarring (Church House and other sites) by Sioned Vos
  • A Hook to a Legend by Amie Friend
  • In Celebration of Cherry Trees by Cheryl Hutchins

December 2018. Volume 5, Number 1

Including:

  • Possible Neolithic Flint Mines at North End, Findon
  • Between the Wet and Dry: Malthouse Field, Sompting in prehistory
  • Rough Copse Excavation Report 2017
  • A Note on the Pottery from Rough Copse Excavation 2017
  • Rough Copse, Rewell Wood Flint Report RC.17
  • Major Arthur Cecil Roper and his wife Frances Ann Hubbard
  • Who was Madame Jabot?
  • A self-guided walk around Beach Town, Littlehampton

January 2017. Volume 4, Number 4

Including:

  • Possible Neolithic Flint Mines at Salvington Hill
  • Chalk Objects and Identity in the Neolithic: Evidence from Sussex Enclosures
  • Excavation at the Goblestubbs Copse East Enclosure – Easter 2016
  • Goblestubbs Copse Flint Report – 2006/7, Easter & Summer 2016
  • The Heroic Age of Antarctic Explorations: The Worthing Connections
  • The First 50 Years from the Society’s Minute Books

January 2016. Volume 4, Number 3

Including:

  • It’s Only Words…! The Mutilation of Samian Stamps in the Chichester Hinterland
  • Roman Road through Clapham and Patching
  • Excavation at St. Nicholas Garden, Angmering – June 6th to 27th 2015
  • Slindon Charcoal Burners
  • John Frederick Jervis (1891 – 1915)
  • Operation Nightingale
  • The Polish Resettlement Camp in Petworth Park

January 2015. Volume 4, Number 2

Including:

  • Slindon House Stable Block, 2012—13
  • Sussex Loops
  • Possible Site of Cutmill Watermill, Broadwater, Worthing
  • Lower Farm, Walberton, Report 2013—14
  • Lower Farm, Walberton, Excavation Finds

December 2013. Volume 4, Number 1

Including:

  • Slindon House Cellars—Interim Report
  • A Field Walk at Lake Lane, Barnham
  • Angmering Geophysical Survey
  • The Stiances Archaeological Project, Season 2
  • Upstairs at Parham House
  • A Regionally Important Pottery Group from Goblestubbs Copse 2006—2007
  • What can the Late Bronze Age hill-forts, between the Adur and Arun rivers, infer about the communities of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Sussex?

May 2012. Volume 3, Number 14

Including:

  • The Great War
  • Southwick Report
  • Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre
  • Highdown
  • Surveying and the Survey Team
  • The ‘Brodgar Boy’ Unearthed in Orkney
  • Slindon Deer Park
  • Service to Malaysia Award

May 2011. Volume 3, Number 13

Including:

  • Bronze Age Site
  • Parham Report
  • Downstairs at Parham House
  • Ice Houses
  • Iron Age Hill Fort
  • Stonehenge Quarry Tomb

WAS Journals (originally Annual Reports) published pre 2011 will be added here as they are acquired. They have been scanned from paper copies. We welcome donations of any that you may hold to fill in the gaps.